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Since his "birth" in 1813, Uncle Sam has appeared in political cartoons, army recruitment posters and magazine covers. He has participated in nearly every historical and cultural event of the last two centuries, from the War of 1812 to music by the Grateful Dead. He even had his own comic book. And on Nov. 4 he will be at rallies and on posters, urging every American to participate in the most patriotic day of all: Election Day. A look underneath...
...Gist:Of all of the assorted manners of creative expression - cinema, literature, dance, theater, music, architecture - visual art is the most inscrutable. It is swaddled in layers of pretension, seemingly produced, discussed, and traded by a rare, elite few. Yet, as Thornton argues, more people seem to be buying and consuming art than ever before. Structured as a series of seven day-long dips into the community's various subcultures, Thornton's book explores (among other things) the floating jealousies at a high-end auction, the exhausting, freewheeling process of an art school critique session, and the machinations behind...
...Having watched Dipdive’s “Yes We Can” music video hundreds of times onine during the primary, Yousef is convinced that Barack Obama would be a president who will bring real change to this country. He’s even reached across the hallway—without preconditions—to show the video to our eight-year-old sister, Lilah, proving that bipartisan cooperation is possible even between the staunchest of adversaries. Now, she too has a sense of this election’s importance...
...beginning of the end of an institution on Friday night as James Yannatos stepped to the podium for the opening concert of his 45th and final season as music director of the Harvard-Radcliffe Orchestra (HRO). If Yannatos is mourning his departure, however, he is not doing so through his selection of music. His choices pulsed with emphatic joy and were delivered with conviction by his orchestra. The evening began with a premiere of Carson Cooman’s “Flying Machine,” an HRO commission dedicated to Yannatos in celebration of his commitment...
...takes a large capacity for tact to create the cotton candy-powder puff-bubble gum masterpiece that is “Legally Blonde: The Musical.” The writers—Laurence C. O’Keefe ’91 and Nell D. Benjamin ’93, who have worked together several times since the Hasty Pudding’s 145th production—return to the Yard to satirize its residents with just the right amount of sting and wit while avoiding an easy resort to caricature. Granted, they’ve got an audience with...