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...play our best when we're loose," Darryl DePriest said after the game. It just took the squad 30 minutes to settle down to some of its best basketball of the season. DePriest said that the plexiglass back-boards and the vast expanse of empty seats made it hard to judge distances...
...academism at Harvard and MIT, where Kepes still teaches, Bauhaus style lectures will dwell on the physical perception of color rather than a particular style of painting. Carpenter Center's introductory courses are well stocked with Jose Albert's systematic color studies and laszlo Moholy Nagy's experiments with plexiglass and other transparent materials. Cambridge's resources seem too much to ignore--but enough regrets...
...techniques--like gum bichromate, solarization, and cyanotype--and new chemical processes like polaroid and 3-M color. They borrow images from television and porno-magazines, create scenes in the darkroom which were never seen by a camera's eye and photosensitize anything they can get their hands on--including plexiglass, fur and linen. As Aaron Siskind, a documentary photographer whose work later became much more abstract, said, "...as the language or vocabulary of photography has been extended, the emphasis of meaning has shifted--shifted from what the world looks like to what we feel about the world and what...
...there is no plexiglass mounted around the top of the boards. Instead, the fans are protected by chain link fence, which is nearly impossible to see through. Before the game I felt like I was at the zoo, waiting for the polar bears to come out and perform. After watching the Dartmouth fans, I think...
While through a plexiglass window passers-by watched the hole grow, others watched the destruction of Hunt Hall with interest--and perhaps a tear or two. Film teacher Stan Lowder described the building as one of "dignity, of a type that will never be built again." The building was razed despite the protests of a committee of faculty and students to "Save Hunt Hall...