Word: strikingness
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One of the striking aspects of Le Pen's campaign this year has been his widening appeal to the voters in France's crime-ridden banlieues, or suburbs. After the riots of November 2005, suburban residents registered in droves to vote for the first time. Conventional wisdom had it that...
Renoir and Radiohead? At the “Night at the Busch-Reisinger Museum” event on Feb. 22, the Organization of Undergraduate Representatives of the Harvard University Art Museums (OUR HUAM) presented striking contrasts like that one in an evening filled with unexpected convergences of the arts. The...
Deborah Eisenberg’s writing is so fluid and easy to read that it was not until I had finished each story that I realized how deeply entwined I had become with her characters and their experiences, or how much depth lay behind them. Like her previous works, Eisenberg?...
David Fincher, director of “Se7en” and “Fight Club,” returns to the big screen with “Zodiac,” a haunting film based on actual murder case files. Fincher’s unique, unsettling style will leave...
That change is slowly playing out at Iwakuni. The seaside MSDF facility not far from Hiroshima was a main Japanese air force base through World War II, before it was eventually taken over by the Americans, and the grounds are now shared with the U.S. Marines. It's in the...