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...stark Prostitute, Nagoya conjures up the seedier underbelly of the mid-century boom years. Later images - like the strange, wriggling creatures of Ruinous Garden, or the rusting steel of the series Scrapped Boat, Nagasaki - are more abstract and puzzling, as if mirroring the confusion and disillusionment that took hold when the boom turned to bust. Poised between the horrors of its past and the possibilities of its future, modern Japan has been a society in constant flux: there can be few more acute observers of this process than Shomei Tomatsu...
...main fun is watching the women bicker and bond with their claws out, hiding nothing; the men are basically plot devices. On first glance, “Stage Door” seems sort of creaky—an old timey piece. But, as my roommate who arrived mid-movie said, “I don’t usually like black and white movies, but this is really well-written.” The original play was created as a vehicle for Hepburn and caters to her aristocratic, intelligent, and lovely strengths. Terry’s struggle to live...
...context of an international cooperation.” Winners receive a 750,000-Euro prize intended to fund future research. Payne said her upcoming book, “Modern Architecture and the Rise of a Theory of Objects,” will look at buildings and monuments from the mid-nineteenth and twentieth centuries, focusing on the German-speaking world including Germany, Austria, and Switzerland. Although she wrote about the Renaissance and Baroque periods in Italy for her first book, she said she has always studied both early modern and modern architecture. Payne looks at architecture...
...Francisco, resulted in as many as 2,800 deaths and caused an estimated $400 million in damages when it hit 100 years ago yesterday. Cambridge may be across the country from the site of that earthquake, but Harvard has suffered its share of seismic events as well. In the mid 1700s, two earthquakes with magnitudes of at least 6.0 shook the city; since then, several lower-intensity quakes have hit the area. As recently as 2002, Harvard felt tremors from a 5.0 earthquake epicentered in New York that measured 3.0 by the time it reached Cambridge. Earthquake shocks also...
...Presidents have long turned to the staff shakeup or cabinet shuffle as a way of digging out of trouble. And George W. Bush is in trouble - his polls continue to hover in the mid-30s (although that's not bad compared to the GOP-controlled Congress, which, in one poll released this week, has sunk to a 23% approval rating.) After his famed "malaise" speech in 1979, in which he said the country was going through a "crisis of confidence," President Jimmy Carter offed his secretaries of Treasury and Health Education and Welfare. Ronald Reagan famously reshuffled his White House...