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...while “The World as a Stage” offers different ways of imagining what constitutes a “stage” and its “actors,” it contains one central contradiction. The divide between art and life might seem headed toward oblivion, but the “world” is not yet completely exchangeable with “the art gallery.” “Hunchback Kit” is problematic for the exhibition at large, because “Arena” re-imagines the gallery...

Author: By Elsa S. Kim, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: All the Art Exhibition's a Stage | 2/15/2008 | See Source »

...well Johnny Depp Sweeney Todd He's fierce, wondrous, haunted, funny, scary--and on key Daniel Day-Lewis There Will Be Blood A superb actor in an opaque role--it's all snarl, no soul Julie Christie Away from Her She radiates the vague cunning of dementia, its creeping oblivion Marion Cotillard La Vie en Rose Her Edith Piaf has the big gestures but lacks the sad internal music

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The 800-lb. Golden Gorilla | 2/14/2008 | See Source »

...Harvard’s defense repeatedly stifled the Huskies and controlled the puck throughout the game, chants like the Eagles' “Sucks to BU” took over the arena in apparent oblivion to Harvard and Northeastern...

Author: By Robert T. Hamlin, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: HAMMING IT UP: Beanpot Hockey Fans Dwindle | 2/7/2008 | See Source »

...Innovation or Oblivion Hong Kong and Shenzhen could still run into the bugbear of all corporate mergers: a clash of cultures. Hong Kong has the world's most open economy, according to U.S.-based think tank the Heritage Foundation; one with low taxes, a mature legal system and international standards of corporate transparency and regulation. The mainland, for all its explosive growth, remains hamstrung by corruption and a centrally planned economy. Beijing has taken slow, measured steps to open its financial markets, but obstacles remain. Because China's currency, the yuan, is nonconvertible, capital can't flow freely between Hong...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Beijing's Brokers | 1/17/2008 | See Source »

Along with Herodotus - hailed here as "a marker set down against the oblivion with which time threatens all human deeds" - and Thucydides, the earliest exponent of realpolitik, Burrow devotes the first third of his book to a long line of Greco-Roman historians. He goes on to discuss "the radical and pervasive" impact of the Bible on history - for example, in the writings of the 6th century French Bishop Gregory of Tours, whom he dubs "Trollope with blood." Equally intriguing is Burrow's discussion of the secular historian Geoffrey of Monmouth, a fabricator who claimed that his 12th century account...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Past Masters: John Burrows' History of Histories | 1/9/2008 | See Source »

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