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...times utterly heartless, at times dedicated and loving, Nicholas is always arrestingly bright and completely human. He is cruel to his children—their memories of him inevitably include insults and beatings—and abandons his wife. Yet Nicholas also has a much softer, thoughtful, and loving side. He remains dedicated to his wife even ten years after he leaves her, because, as he cryptically explains, “she understood the geometry of things.” But while Docx’s talent for character creation is impressive, it can sometimes lead him toward caricature...
...when I was in my teen years all came from here or stores like this, so it’s important.” Viglione is intimately aware of the store’s impact. “It’s a very important channel to get that side of society out, a side that doesn’t normally get a voice or a forum very much on mainstream radio or TV or anything like that. You’ve got to find places like that where you can buy it and then spread...
...Museum of Fine Arts (MFA). The exhibit, “El Greco to Velázquez,” will run through July 27, 2008. It showcases dozens of works from the 23 years of the reign of Philip III, a period that was bookended on either side by the careers of renowned Spanish painters El Greco and Diego Velázquez. The exhibit also features several lesser-known artists, obscure even in Spain, who worked in the Spanish court and collectively bridge the gap between El Greco’s late career and Velázquez?...
...their effective employment of language and wit, because, Shaket says, the goal is to “defeat them with your mind.” By scheduling the event during April visiting weekend, the organizers of “Outwit” hope to show prospective students a different side of Harvard. “We study a lot, but we also have lives and we do things like freestyle rap,” Anderson says. The goal, according to event coordinator Brittney R. Lind ’11, is for people to leave “Outwit?...
...true terrifying nature of Djata’s society. Djata is very much preoccupied with simply figuring out his own world, that eating colored chalk does not give you fever (“nothing happened to us except we peed in color, my pee was on the reddish side and Szabi’s was greenish”). It is this contrast of childhood innocence against ruthless violence that makes “The White King” interesting.“The White King” offers a fascinating and terrifying display of how a national philosophy of violence...