Word: loss
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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While the same themes of loss and separation are inherent to each student's work, their treatment and interpretation of the subject span a broad spectrum. The idea for the show was borne of a traumatic experience in Kanter's life during the summer of 1998 when her mother died of cancer. Her selections for the show were a direct representation of her loss: a candid family shot of her healthy mother beside 8x10 black and white photos of a frailer, weakened mother in a wheel chair. Dealing with separations and losses was one of the primary objectives...
...work of Javier Mixco '99 overlaps thematically with Kanter's in its exploration of the pain and ramifications of physical loss. Covering an overnight shift in the Massachusetts's General Hospital emergency room, Mixco captured the physical manifestation of loss with several disturbing but brilliant shots. The sterility of Mixco's black and white media lends his work a quiet remove that is strikingly juxtaposed with scattered syringes, rubber gloves and wrappers of ER mayhem. Mixco, who plans to attend medical school in the future, beautifully mingled his artistic and technical sensibilities with wires emerging from the vein...
...million Celtics star Antoine Walker's playing time in opening night loss to the Raptors: 41 minutes...
Worst of all, marketability has a measurable effect on the athletic contests themselves. In college football last year, for example, Kansas State, a Cinderella team which was only double-over-time loss away from college football's national championship game, was knocked out the four most prestigious bowl games because the Wildcats did not have the drawing power of big-name football schools like Florida and Texas A&M. This in turn hit the university in its pocketbook: Kansas State, which would have made $12 million in a top-tier bowl game, instead drew a $1 million payout...
...Saturday, the Crimson will host the new No.2, Brown, which handed Harvard its only loss...