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Inherent within this idea of a "new, cold conservatism" masquerading as apathy is the idea that conservatives on campus conspired to so mask it. You give us too much credit, dear Crimson. Republicans at Harvard exist only on virtual e-mail lists. We don't even have enough people at meetings to share a pizza. We are not organized. We don't sit around plotting ways to take over the campus and secretly infiltrate a socially-conscious Harvard with the seeds of selfishness and greed...
MARCH 2 A photo op with O.J. lawyer Robert Shapiro at the opening of The Man in the Iron Mask...
...that no Western artist had made them carry before. He did this through metamorphosis, recomposing the body as the shape of his fantasies of possession and of his sexual terrors. Now the hidden and comparatively decorous puns of Cubism (the sound holes of a mandolin, for instance, becoming the mask of Pierrot) came out of their closet. "To displace," as Picasso described the process, "to put eyes between the legs, or sex organs on the face. To contradict. Nature does many things the way I do, but she hides them! My painting is a series of cock-and-bull stories...
...first thing you noticed was the face, a dead-white mask of anguish with black holes for eyes, a curt slash of red for a mouth and cheekbones as high as the sky. Even if Martha Graham had done nothing else worth mentioning in her 96 years, she might be remembered for that face. But she also made dances to go with it--harsh, angular fantasies spun out of the strange proportions of her short-legged body and the pain and loneliness of her secret heart. If Graham ever gave birth, one critic quipped, it would be to a cube...
...MASK OF ZORRO (July 17). This twentysomethingth version of the Latino avenger fable looks sumptuous and serious. Yet one wonders about Antonio Banderas, a sexy, able actor whose films almost no one pays to see. Is he the Spanish Jeff Bridges...