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Emily S. High ’06, another advisee, said she turned just in time to avoid being hit in the face with glass. She said she and the others ran to the far side of the restaurant to avoid the glass pieces that continued to swirl in the dining room because of the strong wind...
...Yoko Ono (who knew she was Italian?). The only thing missing was Torino's famous shroud, said to have covered Jesus. The Olympics are about the pride of the host country, but the Games also bring in worldly anxieties. Danish athletes reportedly received special protection because of the global swirl of threats surrounding the publication of cartoons Muslims consider insulting to the Prophet Muhammad. Some 400 antiglobalization protesters burned U.S. and Olympic flags in downtown Torino just a few hours before the opening ceremonies, as Italian security officials voiced concern about more violent disruptions of the Games. Everywhere...
Reminders of the harsher realities were perceptible, however. The Olympics are about the pride of the host country, but the Games also bring in worldly and cruel anxieties. Danish athletes reportedly received special protection because of the global swirl of threats surrounding the publication of cartoons inimical to the Prophet Muhammad. Everywhere in Torino and around the stadium, soldiers and police were visible. And until the disco music drowned them out, helicopters whirred loudly over the proceedings...
...saying goes, "give me a child until he is seven, and I will give you the man," then in Grant's case the age was four. The show begins with a suite of his kindergarten paintings of fairytale princesses, with the real subject being the bright swirl of their gowns. Displayed alongside is the full-blown bloom of that boyhood obsession: one of the huge crinolines Grant constructed for a 1994 exhibition in the gardens of a chateau outside of Paris. That show, Habiller D?shabiller, grew out of Grant's earlier studies in sculpture, and what makes the current...
...they have a quiet dignity, which the video conveys by panning over their faces as they stare profoundly into middle distance. His girlfriend resembles Brittany Murphy on a cocaine-and-makeup binge. The first part of the video depicts Jimmy’s life as a hazy, jumpily filmed swirl of sex, drugs, rock-’n’-roll, hating his mom, and watching Green Day perform “Jesus of Suburbia” on TV (so meta it hurts). This thrilling lifestyle is cut short about halfway through the video, as his girlfriend leaves...