Word: splittingly
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...owning an affordable convertible. Its standout feature is a retractable hard-top, which doubles as a sun-roof. Flip a switch and in 25 seconds, it automatically stows in the rear. Watching this shape-changing act is worth the price of admission; the rear deck opens, the roof panels split apart, stack atop each other and neatly fold away. If you engage this feature in a parking lot, be prepared to discuss it with the gawking onlookers...
...think you'll understand what's happening," says the author. "But I don't think it will hit you the same way if you're too young for the book." While the book is blunt, it is never sensational: "Men come. They crush my bones with their weight. They split me open," says Lakshmi. And it is less about sex than about coercion and commerce and the eventual triumph of will. At heart, McCormick admits, she is an activist. "I couldn't write this book fast enough," she says, "because I felt such urgency to have the situation understood...
...stay alive. Using $7,000 of Whannell's savings, the pair shot a shocking 10-min. film in which Whannell played one of Jigsaw's victims who has to dig a key from the digestive tract of a paralyzed cellmate before Whannell's character's jaw is split open by a reverse bear trap. On the strength of that short, Los Angeles--based Evolution Entertainment ponied up $1.2 million to make a feature. The sets were grungy--most of the film takes place in a dirty bathroom--and the actors, Danny Glover and Carey Elwes, weren't too expensive...
...hidden some gems filled with cutting-edge art. These are innovative galleries devoted to contemporary art, featuring a new show almost every month: well worth a stop for anyone with an interest in changing trends in the art world.As if to symbolize Boston’s split artistic personality, Gallery NAGA (67 Newbury St) is located in the same building as a granite Victorian-era church. The work of Boston native Gerry Bergstein, who has exhibited here for the past 30 years, is currently on display. His paintings are intricate and dreamlike, capturing imaginary worlds simultaneously being constructed and destroyed...
...Harvard University Art Museums (HUAM) have just acquired the Walter C. Sedgwick Collections of Japanese Buddhist sculpture and early Chinese ceramics, described in a HUAM press release as the most significant addition to Harvard’s Asian art collection in many decades. The collections, acquired through a split gift and purchase arrangement, are divided between Japanese Buddhist sculpture and early Chinese ceramics. “This will complete our already outstanding collecting…it puts us in a position of international prominence,” said Robert D. Mowry, Alan J. Dworsky curator of Chinese art and head...