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...Lewis ’68 raised the possibility that “already overstressed demands on the infrastructure” would cause the University to divert resources from already existing artistic endeavors on campus. But Tom Conley, professor of romance languages and literature and visual and environmental studies, stood with arms akimbo at the podium and sought to allay Lewis’ concerns. “‘Art is born of constraint, and it dies of liberty,’” Conley recited in French. “I hope that this will soften...your remarks...
...Sackler Museum, two slender violin bows dipped up and down against the backdrop of a 15th century Italian painting last Friday afternoon. The violinists, dressed elegantly in black with splashes of red and white, focused intently on the delicacy of their work. A small audience of museum-goers stood and perched on folding stools nearby, while others calmly perused the surrounding artwork. Even gallery security guards stretched their beats slightly to watch the performance. In adjoining rooms, the airborne cadences of concertos reached statues, portraits, vases, and painted panels...
Adams has long stood out for its restrictive dining policies, though FlyBy has a pretty good record of getting our food there come dinner time. But last night, the House with the convenient, if dimly lit, dining hall took interhouse restrictions to a new level. The absurdity after the jump...
...silenced when one baby snorted a great throaty wad and spit it right into another baby’s face. The babies all spat at each other and then turned, and thumping loudly on the board, they implicated the audience in their argument, spitting at the crowd which stood ten feet away. This spit sequence was followed by a painfully loud pout session in which six babies gradually turned whimpers into sobs, and then into wails. The noise music score by Mark A. VanMiddlesworth ’10, who is also a Crimson Arts editor, was especially effective here...
During the campaign the famously irascible Hall of Fame pitcher had endured repeated questions about his age and even his mental stability, and had stood by while supporters called his opponent limp-wristed. Always prone to outlandish statements, Bunning himself made news when he said his opponent Daniel Mongiardo, then a state senator and now a lieutenant governor expected to run for the seat in 2010, looked like "one of Saddam Hussein's sons." In 2006, TIME named Bunning one of America's worst senators. (See America's best and worst senators...