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...Obama will initially focus on building his White House operation, much as Ronald Reagan did in 1980. Cabinet appointments are likely to begin coming by the end of the month, which is still early by recent historical standards. But Podesta says Obama intends to make the White House the locus of policy formulation and decision-making...
...years old. On three panels of bright reddish orange scuffed with grey, a trio of mutant figures grimace, snarl and bark. In two of them, the most expressive feature is the gaping mouth. What the eyes represent for most painters, the mouth was for Bacon, the locus of human identity. The mouth is what bites, suckles and howls at the moon. By contrast, the eyes in any face painted by him are likely to be missing entirely or smeared shut or obscured by a milky scrim. In Bacon's pictures, the windows of the soul - not that he believed...
...talk about running. With the cops in hot pursuit, the doctor has to cross a freeway that surrounds Paris, with hundreds of cars screeching around him. We know all about freeways, don't we? They've been the locus of about a hundred high speed action sequences, always ending in spectacular crashes and conflagrations in American movies. Canet is much more rational in his handling of the sequence - just this lone guy dodging through the traffic, which naturally ends up in a nasty tangle, but not in a big time fireball. The result is a piece in which we retain...
...administration soon decided to abandon negotiation and abolished the fund in a letter posted on the internet. The decision was not only disrespectful of student input, but also deeply flawed. While the cancellation of the Party Fund was intended to stop underage drinking, it will likely merely push the locus of the campus party scene further away from administrative control, while further exacerbating class differences in Harvard social life.The administration’s intransigence was matched only by that of the Undergraduate Council, which angrily protested the decision with heated rhetoric and a refusal to comply. This...
...place—because unprotected sex leads to pregnancy.Shvarts knows this of course. Summing up the crux of her argument—that there is a mistaken conflation of sex and reproduction—she wrote, “It is the intention of this piece to destabilize the locus of that authorial act [of sex for reproduction], and in doing so, reclaim it from the heteronormative structures that seek to naturalize it.” This is the sort of jargon we’ve all come to know very well, the sort that bounces across our email screens...