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Right off the bat, Harvard felt the absence of its defensive anchor as Dartmouth emerged from the sideshow with a 4-3 advantage and capitalized on the situation. Sara Clark scored the powerplay goal as she took a hard slap shot from the left circle which deflected off Lydia Wheatley and right past Boe into...
...think you are capable of living without writing," said the German poet Rainer Maria Rilke, "do not write." He didn't live to meet Diane Arbus, but if he had seen her photographs he would have understood her right away. Those portraits of sideshow performers and weeping children, her matter-of-fact nudists and naked transvestites, her pictures of "them," her pictures of "us"--something of consequence is at stake here, and it's not just art. Arbus worked at the point where the voyeuristic and the sacramental converge. She lies in wait for your first misstep in her direction...
...secret," she once wrote. "The more it tells you the less you know." Her simplest pictures, like A child crying, N.J., could have an unfathomable power, but her most basic aim was not so mysterious. Arbus wanted anyone who viewed her images to find spiritual kinship with her sideshow freaks and drag queens. She also wanted viewers to discover, in her photographs of "ordinary" people, what was feral or bleak or unnerving in us all. It's all there in A young Brooklyn family going for a Sunday outing, N.Y.C., a couple with their attempted aplomb undone, even though they...
...Midwest Grill is an incidental sideshow. The restaurant has a vague cowboy feel, with many quasi-artistic representations of cattle and a large number of equestrian accoutrements. In fact, should selling meat ever become uneconomical, The Midwest Grill certainly has enough leather products on display to immediately relaunch itself as Cambridge’s premier S&M supply store. As it is, however, the wall hangings do enough to convince doubtful patrons that the Midwest to which the title refers is not the repressed and repressive setting of American Gothic, but some exotic, mythical land in the Southern Hemisphere, where...
...little like walking into a carnival sideshow. At the entrance to the new "What About China?" exhibit at the Centre Georges Pompidou, Feng Mengbo's life-size video game invites visitors to jump or stomp on a plastic mat; sensors underneath connect to a huge monitor where guns go off and gore flies. Beyond, a triumphal arch of polystyrene take-out food cartons leads to a vast gallery filled with dozens of movie and video screens, paintings, photographs, sculptures, installations and other objets d'art - a swirling kaleidoscope of color and sound. Anticipating by six months France's 2004 cultural...