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...classic and elegant, although the seats might feel a little like those in a Harvard lecture hall (no, not in the Science Center--no one would go see any respectable performances in a hall with purple carpet and green chairs); its beauty makes it the perfect place to polish one's social graces. If one goes, one must be cautious. To fall asleep would just be embarrassing. To clap in between movements (hint: that's the wrong time) would be downright humiliating. This is what the program is for, so the audience can keep track and applaud at the appropriate...
...were looking for a springboard to the Ivy League Tournament. We wanted it to be a low pressure situation where we could push ourselves and polish our game," Schafer said...
...been working really hard to be competitive in the fall, and today we were able to go out and be real aggressive," senior lightweight Tom Fallows said. "We still have some technical stuff to polish up on for next weekend at Princeton, but in general I was happy with our performance today." Harvard at the Head How the Harvard and Radcliffe boats finished at this weekend's Head of the Charles Regatta. Source:http://www.horc.org/ Crew Finish M. Youth Eights 16th of 39 W. Youth Eights 14th of 35 M. LW Eights 6th of 29 M. Champ Fours...
...strategy," that "if you show that everyone was a victim, then the church has no responsibility [and] no guilt in the Holocaust." Such conspiracy buffs might want to toss in the Stepinac beatification, Pius' prospects, parts of We Remember and the erection of crosses outside Auschwitz by right-wing Polish Catholics...
...truth than beauty. Particularly the truth of materials. The Russian Constructivists had a term, faktura, meaning the straightforward, logical use of substances--wood, tin, steel, rope, wire--to produce expressive effects on their own material terms. Serra is and always has been fanatical about this. He doesn't paint, polish, grind or otherwise fiddle about with his metal. It rusts naturally and bears the marks of its making, the scrapes, even the claw marks of the grabs that hoisted the plates. And yet these traces, which one might think would be brutal, acquire--given the enormous scale of the pieces...