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Ruiz will present his documentary portrait, “Boquita,” which shows a day in the life of a transgender performer and social worker from the Dominican Republic living in Jamaica Plain, Mass. Student filmmakers of all years will be represented, from freshman Samuel T. Ray ’08 to seniors John F. Errington ’05 and Philip M. Hodges ’05, to several Harvard alumni. Though most are residents (or residents-to-be) of Adams House, there are a few non-Adams filmmakers who will be showcasing their work, including...
...scenes in the Fogg bring me back to my first year here, when I was taking a freshman seminar on several works displayed in the Harvard Art Museums. Stevens’ depiction of the Cellar—and his beautiful and uncannily accurate portrait of Quinten—fast-forwards me to this year, inviting me to reminisce over all the fun nights out I’ve had with all the people whom I’ll soon have to refer to wistfully as “my college friends...
...Fake” is the true story of many fakes and a few fake stories about fakes. I love that description. In this case, truth is truly stranger than fiction. Welles’ creates a portrait of internationally known art forger Elmyr de Hory, who had recently been the subject of a bestselling biography by Clifford Irving called “Fake...
...Countryman Press; 254 pages; $14.95) was written by Briton Reginald Hill in 1971 as the second book featuring his police duo Dalziel and Pascoe, but this is its first appearance in the U.S. Hill has written better books since, including this year's Exit Lines and the chilling 1984 portrait of a psychopath, Deadheads. Nonetheless, this volume is a skillful reworking of a standard routine in mystery fiction: the discovery of a long-buried skeleton and the consequent unraveling of a skein of past concealment and deceit. The setting is a mediocre British college, recently converted from all girls...
...spirit looming over the first business session the Soviet leader has ever held with top American officials was that of Lenin, whose brooding fervor seemed to pervade the exchange. Huge portraits of him decorated Red Square in anticipation of last week's anniversary parade of the Bolshevik Revolution; a portrait of Lenin even peered over Shultz's shoulder in the austere Kremlin conference room where the talks were held. Gorbachev opened with a comment that "most often misunderstandings come from a lack of knowledge." Shultz replied: "That's right, although sometimes I know cases where I wish I didn...