Word: textual
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...Harvard Joins Evolution Debate,” which implied that Harvard researchers’ work on the origins of raw molecular rudiments had something to do with science’s account of the origins of species. A more spectacular example of willful wrongness involves elementary textual interpretation. The U.S.’ current executive branch is working under a dead-wrong theory about the nature of its power. (A new book by Glenn Greenwald lays out the details.) The constitutional arguments underlying recent claims of unfettered and unreviewable executive freedom to break the law are laughably erroneous. No faculty...
...cinema's pre-eminent avant-gardist. Back before he made The Draughtsman's Contract and 8 1/2 Women, he made meticulously malevolent short films (seven are collected here) and The Falls, a three-hour fake-umentary about 92 people whose lives were altered by a Violent Unknown Event. The textual and textural density is intoxicating, the English wit so dry you could choke on it. A sturdy challenge for movie lovers--and unmissable...
...after the Palestinian educational institution. We are content enough with the “Kremlin on the Charles” nickname of yesteryear to prevent us from desiring a new epithet. Islamic Studies as a field of scholarly inquiry is as virgin as it is significant. Textual analysis of important Islamic texts remains for the most part an untapped and sometimes even dangerous scholarly pursuit. Once given the resources it deserves, the field has the potential to facilitate a much-needed pluralism, one that would revolutionize how Muslims understand themselves as well as how others understand Islam. Therefore...
Lions and skeletons rush past, planes fly over jungle scenes and drop napalm, all within the open ruled pages, before each bricolaged scene collapses back into the raw material of his textual meanderings...
...canvas; Duchamp painted on glass. Certain Lowell house seniors find inspiration in more mundane rectangles of plastic—their designs and text have recently graced many of the Lowell house dining hall trays. Brendan S. Millstein ’06, one of the artist-culprits, is known for textual art in the postmodernist vein. His trademark is the insertion of the word “tray” into an unrelated saying. “April Showers bring Tray Flowers” and the Shakesperean “Et Tu Brutray” are some of the wordplays that...