Word: short
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...watching. After all, videos of this length are not entirely foreign; most YouTube clips are little more than one minute in length, and many movie previews endeavor to capture the entire sense of a film in less than a minute. Most films centered on an object or a short series of images. People, when featured, were usually treated as additional objects. Very few of the films featured dialogue, although those that did were memorable. One example popular with the audience was Matthew Thompson’s “Jell-O,” in which a husband reveals...
...confuse its meaning. At the height of his fame, Simon Hantaï retreated from society, afraid that society wanted to wrest his work from him. Today, Ron English and artists like him seem to be using society itself as another instrument in their art. What ensues is nothing short of fascinating.—Columnist Ryan J. Meehan can be reached at rmeehan@fas.harvard.edu...
...rolls into Cambridge, hoping to come out on top for the first time in 15 years. Last season Cornell came close to ending the streak but still came up short in a hard fought 1-0 loss in Ithaca...
...read a book and enjoyed it, most of what Wood writes will echo with familiarity. The “truth,” the “lifeness” that he seeks to explain, is a driving force not only for writers, but for readers, too. In his short book, Wood creates his own separate space—a few hundred pages in which the reader can explore, along with Wood, what makes fiction matter...
...still bitter about a past jeans-related incident when, as a happy little kindergartner skipping around in elastic waist banded leggings, I snuck into my older sister’s room to try on her new pair of super-slim-fit jeans from the Gap. Long story short, the jeans didn’t fit. An unfortunate combination of baby fat and stiff denim left me sulking in my stretchy spandex. Fifteen years later, I’m still wearing leggings. In fact, in my rebellious refusal to wear jeans at all last year, spandex became my second skin...