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...drawing, painting, and as a collage artist throughout his long and prolific career, Conner first gained attention for his sculpture work. These pieces were composed entirely of objects found in the scrap heaps of San Francisco—bits of cardboard and old building material, torn fabric and thread, pulp serials, broken dolls and, most famously, women’s nylon stockings.Sudden acclaim for his sculpture work and the implied pressures toward more commercial artistic aims elicited a shift in Conner’s medium of choice. In the late-1950s, Conner moved toward filmmaking, bringing the same creative philosophy...
...opted for coffee in the Memorial Hall transept rather than participating in the Harvard College Marathon Challenge around campus, said they enjoyed spending time with their son and meeting his roommates in Wigglesworth. The balancing act between academic, extracurricular, and social life formed the common thread running through many of the weekend’s activities and served as the basis for the panel discussion “The Freshman Year: Now and the Months Ahead.” As moderator of the discussion, Dean of Freshmen Thomas A. Dingman ’67 said...
...That’s what’s so refreshing.”From its opening moments, it may seem that screenwriter Charlie Kaufman’s directorial debut is treading water—the notion of the “author-in-crisis” is a thematic thread that Kaufman explored ad nauseum in his 2002 screenplay for “Adaptation.,” directed by Spike Jonze. For all its novelties, that film was a headache, a neurotic monologue whose paranoid refrains only compounded the pretensions of its obnoxiously self-conscious narrative loop...
...through which to view the worldwide financial crisis as it has rippled from soured loans to banks' balance sheets to the credit markets and, finally, into the real economy. Lenders were greedy, people lived beyond their means, government abdicated its responsibility to regulate. Through all those explanations runs the thread of risk--and how it was mismanaged. Financiers, as well as the investors who bought their wares and the ratings agencies that evaluated them, agreed that by applying the proper equations it was possible to, say, bundle a bunch of subprime mortgages, chop them up and sell the pieces...
...wealthiest Harvard alumni—for free. While this was an intriguing twist for advertisers, it was ultimately not a successful one for 02138.Richard Bradley, former executive editor of 02138, explains that the magazine was founded as a way to cover a breath of lifestyle issues with one common thread: Harvard alumni. “I’m a real admirer of the concept behind the magazine,” he says. “You had a stake in a sophisticated, largely affluent audience, and you had a very interesting group of people to write about underneath...