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...pavilion is typically a lightning rod, a superpower's force reflected in high production values and heavy funding for an American artist whose work is internationally known. This year's display is no different, with backing of about $1 million from government and private sources, including a $100,000 grant from the glitzy fashion house Gucci (and the requisite glamour of Gucci's creative director, Tom Ford, posing on several occasions with Hamilton as his bodyguards stood stonily by). These are the trappings of America's high-end art culture at the end of the century: spectacle is required...
Everything in Hamilton's show follows from that statement. Inside the pavilion, the high white walls are covered with Braille that translates tales of American violence from Charles Reznikoff's poetry book Testimony: the United States, 1885-1915: recitative. Down the walls, bright fuchsia powder, with its overtones of toxic waste, falls from tanks hidden in the ceilings. The artist's recorded voice whispers Lincoln's second Inaugural Address, with its moving call for healing during the savagery of the Civil War, but it too is interpreted, spelled out in the phonetic alphabet used by pilots (Alfa for a, Bravo...
...Harvard men's basketball team, it was such a 3-0 homestretch--including a historic 87-79 overtime win against vaunted Princeton before a sellout crowd in Lavietes Pavilion--that put this year's team and its senior class on the map of Harvard hoops history...
...After stretching Ivy League champion Penn to the wire in a 81-76 setback at Lavietes Pavilion, Harvard returned to its home court and broke a 17-game winless streak against last year's league champion, Princeton...
...just caught and shot, with no hesitation and no doubts. Swish! And the bench went crazy. And Maples Pavilion fell silent. And Harvard slew the beast...