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...look, you think as you wait for a self-service scoop of cauliflower au gratin. The gentleman in front of you on line is wearing a ski mask. How quaint. However will he use his fork and knife? Oh, what does it matter. These ingenious Harvard men will always find...
African and Oceanic Sculpture: Treasures from a Private Collection. Through July 3. The objects are mostly wood and terracotta, ranging from a miniature wooden mask from Zaire to a monumental yoruba veranda post from Nigeria...
...what the country might be like without race as the nail upon which American identity is hung comes from Pap, in Mark Twain's Huckleberry Finn, who upon learning a Negro could vote in Ohio, "drawed out. I says I'll never vote ag'in." Without his glowing white mask he is not American; he is Faulkner's character Wash, in Absalom, Absalom!, who, stripped of the mask and treated like a "nigger," drives a scythe into the heart of the rich white man he has loved and served so completely...
Harvard, trying to utilize its atheleticism and depth to mask its lack of height (no starter over 6'1"), adopted a new full court press and running offense before the year...
...feel? The viewer must translate the glances and cramped gestures of Ada's own aboriginal language. Sometimes her sideways stare says, "Men! Jeez!" and suggests the wry comedy The Piano could have been if it had not aimed higher. But mostly we see two eyeholes burning through the mask of civility to reveal raging helplessness -- until Ada finds hope in passion. Then she must face the prospects of Flora's betrayal, Stewart's rage, the loss of the piano, the sacrifice of limb and life...