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...band again. Part of that reaction has to do with the fact that “The Life Pursuit,” unlike previous work, was recorded in more or less live sessions rather than as layers of separately recorded instrumental tracks. The harmonies are less layered, the arrangements simpler. Instead, the album relies more on improvisation and musical solos. The press materials say this is a more “muscular” approach—but that’s not quite right. It’s lithe and subtle and exuberant. Despite the lackadaisical image the band...
...December 30, 2005, as I sat aboard a British Airways plane headed from Harare to home, a flight attendant tapped me on the shoulder and asked me a simpler question, “Are you Amar Bakshi?” I nodded yes. “Mr. Bakshi, please collect your bags; there are some men waiting for you outside.” Five men in faded tan suits stood on the causeway and told me I was in their world...
...into quiet meditations on solitude and society. Hanssen Pigott had seen his 1972 retrospective in Paris, admiring his "geometry tempered by poetry," and in the following decade an Italianate bottle emerged citadel-like from her kiln. She called the piece Thinking of Morandi. Over time her vessels grew into simpler shapes, the space between their groupings often as important as the objects themselves. In this way, a producer of domestic pottery became a sculptor of space. With Leaving Bologna, 2002, a triptych of beakers and cups is gently humanized, as if representing the three sisters Morandi lived with...
...votes are successful, the class of 2007 might have the option of graduating under simpler distribution requirements and the class of 2010 could be the first to declare concentrations during their sophomore rather than freshman year...
...Some professors have suggested “instant implementation” for the new distribution requirements, meaning that students starting with the Class of 2007 would have the choice between completing the requirements of the Core or fulfilling a simpler distribution system. But the Faculty has yet to formally discuss that proposal...