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...highest and most glorious art of all. In our many lecture halls, one must un-learn the practice of risk-taking for that of cozy financial security. Some lucky few though, like Cornell graduate and actress Carla Gallo, skipped those classes on paper-pushing perfection in favor of greater passions. If you’ve watched one of Judd Aptow’s brohiem sagas from the past five years, then you probably have seen Carla Gallo. To jog your memory, she played “Toe-Sucking Girl” in “The 40 Year Old Virgin...
...could expect from a musician writing and performing out in Portland, Oregon, interspersing his songs with neat guitar licks and elegant pop melodies that bring to mind a cultured city. On the singer-songwriter’s new album “Hold Time,” the bucolic passion that imbues the most moving of folk albums makes a strong presence. On the edge of the soundscape are Beach Boys-esque surf-rock melodies and guitar arpeggios that tumble in like the Pacific surf. “Hold Time” is M. Ward’s sixth solo...
...Indo-Muslim and Islamic Religion and Cultures at Harvard University. “It is about becoming less egocentric and more God-centric.” Walking through the exhibit, this act of personal devotion is plain to see. In one photograph, a meditating man shakes his head passionately. The viewer can tell from his eyes that the man is experiencing mystical elation. Post-9/11, the Muslim world has, by and large, been portrayed in the media in conjunction with politics, international relations, and violence. Images like those described above are rarely seen...
...room; you could almost walk among and touch them. The sensation is the same with old black-and-white films like The Third Man, where the Vienna streets gleam with an almost erotic palpability. Any movie that looks good in another format - Sleeping Beauty, Raging Bull, Chungking Express, The Passion of the Christ - will look better on Blu-ray. Different, deeper, better. Realer...
...Bolduc ’10 is an economics concentrator in Winthrop House. On alternate Tuesdays, his column, “Stubborn Things,” will remind Harvard of the conservative viewpoint it often forgets in campus debates. And, whatever may be the dictates of students’ passion, he will show that they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence...