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...Indians over Lila and her illegitimate baby and, of course, over the fact that she is breaking the law. And Ray's sons, both nice kids, are restive and in need of closer supervision. In the end, rough, but not draconian, justice is meted out to Ray, but a thin ray of hope also gleams through the lowering upstate skies...
Ralph Fiennes, head nearly shaved, thin frame draped in mud-brown haberdashery, stands in an implied graveyard and works his mouth into a sour scowl as he says he doesn't mind the smell of corpses. "A trifle on the sweet side perhaps, a trifle heady, but how infinitely preferable to what the living emit, their feet, teeth, armpits, arses, sticky foreskins and frustrated ovules." Fiennes enumerates these body parts with slow precision, and in a tone of crescendoing disgust. It might be a litany of curses, a bill of criminal charges brought against a species about to be condemned...
...later 1960s Twombly's layered scribbles became more regular, filling the picture with rhythmic webs. Working in that manner he produced a series of exquisite paintings dedicated to Nini Pirandello, a friend who had died. Oscillating in a thin wash of pigment, his lines have an elegiac feel, one of fading sensations and of words attempted but never arrived...
...creamy flows of paint across the canvas in an all-too-plain signifier for the surface of water. But the last gallery of this show contains four vast canvases, part of a series called Bacchus that he completed in 2005. In each, a maelstrom of overlapping vermilion loops bleed thin trails of pigment toward the floor. The gods are dead? Don't tell Twombly. Even in old age, he can still summon thunder from Olympus...
...when Ghanaians ask if I am 50-percent Asian and 50-percent American, I say that I am a 100 percent of both. And despite all the brown dust that cakes onto the back of my calves after walking, I can still scrape away a thin, pale line with my fingernail and revel in the fact that I will always be pasty. —Esther I. Yi '11, a Crimson news editor, is a History and Literature concentrator in Dunster House. She prefers...