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...spectacle of Tom Stoppard hoofing it through the theater district on a bum foot would be disconcerting to people who think of the playwright as something of an litist. Ever since his sensational stage debut in 1967 with Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead--his absurdist riff on a pair of minor characters in Hamlet--Stoppard has become almost a genre unto himself, taking intellectual, often abstruse subject matter and turning it into challenging yet playful drama. His game, frequently, is the oddball juxtaposition: moral philosophy and gymnastics (Jumpers); Fermat's last theorem and Byron's love poetry (Arcadia); James...
...Campana brothers have long been ahead of the curve. The exuberant furniture designs dreamt up by Humberto, 54, and Fernando, 45, reuse everything from old rope to soft toys. However fanciful or arty, their work starts from the materials they find, testing properties and limitations. In abstracted form, the pair reflect the zany practicality they see on the poorer streets of São Paulo, their hometown laboratory...
...student at the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, recalled in an interview yesterday. “She was just enjoying the nature and everything was so beautiful.”The afternoon hike turned unimaginably tragic. A log on which the couple was sitting broke loose, sending the pair tumbling down a steep hill. As they fell, the log rolled over them, killing Rossel.The sudden death of Rossel, 32, just two months after her wedding and a month before she was to receive her doctorate in anthropology, left colleagues and friends devastated. “Stine was the kind...
...color-gender association is so over). It’s the words on the t-shirt that are most memorable: “CEO’s look better in heels.” The phrase is accompanied by a graphic of slender legs (presumably female) in a pair of pumps...
...agreed. “Positive experiences lead to positive sentiments,” she said yesterday afternoon. Jee added that similar results were likely to occur if students were given a negative external stimulus—such as a bad exam grade—before completing an evaluation. The pair said they became interested in the accuracy of evaluations during their own reviews. They chose chocolate for the study because they had noticed that distributing treats around evaluation time was a fairly common practice among professors and teaching fellows. Not all students, however, are convinced of chocolate?...