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...according to the severity of their disability, from S1, the most disabled, to S10, the least. Kolbe is an S3 swimmer. Outside the pool, she has to use a wheelchair to get around. Her coaches describe her as a woman with a “positive outlook and contagious smile?? who was willing to try whatever they threw at her. When she swam for Harvard’s varsity team, she was the only disabled athlete on the team. Just to get to practice, she had to catch a shuttle and wheel into Blodgett Pool. But Becca...
...according to the severity of their disability, from S1, the most disabled, to S10, the least. Kolbe is an S3 swimmer. Outside the pool, she has to use a wheelchair to get around. Her coaches describe her as a woman with a “positive outlook and contagious smile?? who was willing to try whatever they threw at her. When she swam for Harvard’s varsity team, she was the only disabled athlete on the team. Just to get to practice, she had to catch a shuttle and wheel into Blodgett Pool. But Becca...
...strings, sliding in and out of the song in a frustrating but fascinating pattern. Then, just as it all starts to build toward a frenzy, the song cuts out—one of several calculated mistakes that pulls the listener deeper into the weird chaos. “Nylon Smile?? wallows in its own near-insanity, with Gibbons wailing, “I don’t know what I’ve done to deserve you” over distorted guitar plucking and backward percussion that make the listener wonder whether those words convey love or just...
...Race,” which is composed of only a plastic, red box holding four aligned snail shells.A piece by Fluxus goddess Yoko Ono demonstrates one of the principles most valued by both Beuys and the Fluxus artists: audience participation. Her piece entitled “A Box of Smile?? (1971) is simply a black box with a mirror inside (how can you help but smile?).The separation of this exhibit into two rooms is excellent, helping to foster thought on the very same ideas as the art itself. In walking from room to room you must pass...
...essays, and even then it is not so much Abraham Lincoln as the photographs of him that interest the author. This fascination is typical for Trachtenberg, who is a professor emeritus of English and American Studies at Yale University. “Lincoln’s Smile?? largely ignores the giant figures of America’s past in order to give an insightful analysis of the minute details of culture that are more frequently overlooked.This weighty but rewarding collection of nineteen essays written over the last forty years is divided into three parts, each dealing with...