Word: motioning
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...video cuts black-and-white footage of the band, playing in some vague dark space, with images of athletes in motion, also in stark black-and-white. The athletes are shown in rapid-motion superimposed freeze-frames, making a tennis serve into a fan of limbs. Who plays tennis with no net in the dark? It looks pretty neat regardless...
...leave, neon lights and spirals fill the dome and attack. The mesmerizing, synchronized patterns pain the eyes, and FM grows dizzy. Nauseous from the taffy and confused by questionably relevant laser hieroglyphs, FM fears it has made a mistake. The planetarium seats start to sway—from audience motion, not psychotropic pre-gaming. After 45 minutes, the novelty has worn off, and FM suspects it has paid four dollars to see an hour-long screensaver in surround sound. FM recommends the show for aficionados and the baked. If early-’70s concept-rock isn?...
...Faculty of Arts and Sciences was slated to meet in University Hall to vote on a no-confidence motion in the leadership of University President Lawrence H. Summers, students and faculty instead gathered in Kirkland House to discuss the future of undergraduate education at the College...
...events and complications, however, may make possible candidates wary.The implementation of Summers’ plans for the Allston Campus will fall to his successor, who might have little input in the development. In addition, the incoming president will have to deal with the Curricular Review, which Summers put into motion. According to Menand, recent events are “unfortunate because the momentum was there in spite of all the troubles.” But Menand feels that the faculty will still have significant input in the future of the Curricular Review, which should take the onus...
...happened coincidentally with Larry Summers’ resignation, but I thought that events at Harvard might motivate some of the faculty who are much less outspoken.” Summers resigned Feb. 21, one week before a Faculty meeting in which he would have faced the second no-confidence motion of his career. In the first vote, held last March, the Faculty of Arts and Science voted a lack of confidence in Summers by a margin of 218-185. Weary Professor of German and Comparative Literature Judith L. Ryan, who had proposed the second no-confidence motion, cautioned against overextending...