Word: silver
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...whereas Clowes stops at depicting all the people you hate, Burns takes it one step farther, adding monsters and phantasmagoric twists. Burns’ work is best encapsulated in his hilariously disturbing “McSweeney’s” issue title page cover: A silver screen starlet embraces a creature covered in sores while a nuclear mushroom cloud explodes in the background. His work borrows heavily from the pulpy comics of the 1950s but combines the familiar elements with overwhelmingly vivid ink drawings...
...Brattle Theatre does not raise enough money this fall to keep its projector bulbs lighted, one of Harvard Square’s most renowned silver screens may tarnish in the dark. The 52-year-old art-house theater must succeed in raising $400,000 by the end of the calendar year, or it will have to stop screening permanently, according to Creative Director Ned Hinkle. The Brattle Film Foundation, which currently rents the theater and schedules films, organized the two-year Preserve the Brattle Legacy Campaign, which ends this December, to help build a solid financial foundation. According to Hinkle...
...Harvard graduated its first African American woman only one century ago.At a dinner banquet on Saturday night, ABHW presented Bonnie St. John ’86 with the Alberta E. Scott Alumna of the Year award. St. John, who had one leg amputated at a young age, won the silver and bronze medals in downhill skiing at the 1984 Paralympics and was also a Rhodes Scholar. She described how visualizing her own dreams of Olympic glory enabled her to overcome poverty and physical disability to become the first African American woman ever to win an Olympic medal in skiing...
...swirling around the mountainsides above us. And a closer look at what we thought were houses reveals they're shiny metal roofs sitting at crazy angles on piles of rocks. The clusters are where roofs have fallen on top of each other into ravines, like a tangle of crashed silver kites...
...asks the questionroughly 20 times a year, and if it doesn't work, he's ready with the follow-up. "You say, 'Well, tell me what your dating history is like,'" explains the Santa Clara University psychology professor. "And usually they'll hand it to you on a silver platter. If they don't, you say, 'Well, do you find yourself more interested in involvement with women or with men?' If they say, 'I've never dated,' you say, 'Well, when you walk down the street, who catches your eye?" And so, gently but relentlessly, Plante, one of several...