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...interview last night, Architecture Department Chair Toshiko Mori said that “there was no such thing as a vote of no confidence...
Ferris, who believes the volume was “almost certainly rebound” after its initial assembly, sees it as “a kind of memento mori, in the spirit of rings and jewelry made out of the hair of deceased in the 19th century...
...most striking pieces in "End of Time," the career retrospective of legendary Japanese photographer Hiroshi Sugimoto now running at the Mori Art Museum in Tokyo, is a portrait of Japan's controversial World War II and postwar Emperor, Hirohito. The black-and-white, 1.5 m by 1.2 m print is astonishing in its crisp detail. Hirohito is seated and wearing full morning dress, and every crease of his jowl, every fold of his trousers, every line on the knuckles of his fingers is finely articulated. It is almost as if the Emperor is sitting there, in the museum, 17 years...
...development. Nick becomes smoother, more jaded, and less likeable. He also becomes more tragic—and thus more loveable. Several points in “The Line of Beauty,” most notably the end, are tear-worthy, but the novel is no vanitas piece or memento mori. Hollinghurst once wrote that elegy is “the dominant and inevitable genre of gay fiction.” Yet elegy celebrates life while marking death, and in “The Line of Beauty,” life abounds, enthralls, and intoxicates.And besides, “The Line...
...hours the camera clicked while the squid struggled to free itself, swimming back and forth until one of its 5.5-m-long tentacles finally tore off its body. The team hauled the still-moving limb to the surface, where they examined it. (Disappointingly, the team passed on eating it?Mori, who had previously sampled a dead giant squid, dismisses it as "extremely salty and bitter.") The nearly 600 images taken of the giant squid show a creature far more aggressive and active than many scientists had suspected. That should give Kubodera and Mori pause before their next hunt: somewhere...