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Equally innovative is the 1968 film “Sand, or Peter and the Wolf” by filmmaker Caroline J. Leaf ’68. Leaf’s work is one of the earliest and best examples of the use of sand in animation, as she creates an ethereal, shapeshifting set of grainy black and white characters. Though its graphics appear rudimentary to today’s eye, Leaf’s film remains visually captivating. Leaf constantly recreates her characters’ forms, faces, and even species; in one scene, a wolf eats a bird that later...

Author: By Alexander E. Traub, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: A 'Frame by Frame' History | 2/9/2010 | See Source »

...Questions has never been stronger. Will admirable works of scholarly reporting also keep coming out? I'm even more confident answering this question affirmatively. One such work, Country Driving: A Journey Through China from Farm to Factory, is being published in February, and it's the best yet from Peter Hessler, whose two earlier books, River Town (2001) and Oracle Bones (2006), were exemplary forays into the genre. Country Driving begins with the author recounting his quixotic efforts to follow the Great Wall by car, depending on flawed maps that sometimes left large sections blank (for political reasons) and often...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Big China Books: Enough of the Big Picture | 2/8/2010 | See Source »

Under the tentative conditions of the current contract, the team of Cleantech Investment researchers, led by Samir Patel ’12, will submit potential investment proposals for final approval to prominent businessman Peter van Stolk, who is providing the funding...

Author: By Tara W. Merrigan, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: HFAC Gets Green Investment Grant | 2/5/2010 | See Source »

...Peter L. Knudson ’13, a Crimson editorial writer, lives in Matthews Hall...

Author: By Peter L. Knudson | Title: Tread Mill Therapy | 2/5/2010 | See Source »

Kennedy School student Peter J. Witzler disagreed with the distinction Steele drew between building consensus and bipartisanship, which Steele called a “political fiction” and a “zero-sum game...

Author: By Stephanie B. Garlock, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Steele Stresses Honest Politics | 2/4/2010 | See Source »

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