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...said, adding, “and to win all the stuff.” The student groups coordinated the event with the event sponsor, Microsoft, said Kevin Shee ’10, director of the HIMG Harvard Gaming Initiative. The software giant provided prizes, some gaming equipment, and even plastic drinking cups. “We’re here to try to create a gaming environment in which anyone, no matter what video game background one comes from, will have a good time and have fun,” said Shee, who was also declared the tournament winner...
...right foods at the right times not because we blindly follow what we’re told, but because we’ve actually experienced where our diets come from. Otherwise, we’re just subscribing to a packaging campaign, albeit less obvious than the colorful plastic wrappers at CVS.We’re not suggesting radical action. One of us (Marianne) ventured into a field to detassle corn at 14 and quit after an hour of the hot sun and the mosquito bites. The other (Aliza) grew up in a home sustained by local organic produce...
...culture,” she says. “We are living at a time where people feel like they have to put their best face forward.” One part of that culture—the push for physical perfection through artificial means such as tanning and plastic surgery—is, Pollitt says, a waste of time. “You might as well be smoking and getting some pleasure out of it,” she says. For Pollitt, the movement towards physical perfection is connected to our current capitalist moment. “The pressure...
...because of The weather project, a hugely popular installation he produced four years ago for London's Tate Modern. Eliasson covered the 115-ft.-high (35 m) ceiling of the Tate's immense Turbine Hall in mirror foil, added an artificial sun of 200 yellow lightbulbs arranged behind translucent plastic and periodically filled the upper air with mist. During the installation's six-month run, more than 2 million people filed in to enjoy the paradox of the outdoors brought indoors, to lie gazing upward at their reflection in the mirrored "sky" and to meditate on how we can submit...
There's a scene in Lars and the Real Girl in which Lars' brother (Paul Schneider) confronts Lars about his delusion, telling him that Bianca is not a real person but a big plastic thing. Lars can't or won't hear him. For the audience his disbelief is a relief--why ruin a love so pure so soon? Selfishly, we hope Gosling keeps tuning Hollywood out a little longer...