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...Catholic Legacy Even before 1492, when King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella vanquished Granada, the last stronghold of Muslim rule on the Iberian peninsula, the Roman Catholic Church set a rigorous religious tone for Spain. For centuries, the Catholic faith - and the patriarchal family structure that it inspired - was the foundation of daily life from the hills of the Basque country to the Andalusian coastline. But the Spanish church was often an overbearing, sometimes repressive presence that brought the Inquisition and provided cover to Franco's fascist regime. Its influence was exemplified by the introduction of the Spanish Civil Code...
...what is enjoyable about this exhibition, which runs until May 26, is not how familiar its tone is, but how oddly and refreshingly different. What you see is creativity that is endlessly inventive and outrageous, but at the same time charmingly tentative; irony that is fresh rather than institutionalized; and fascinating objects (if unbeautiful for the most part ) that have absolutely no gloss - no air, really, of selling...
While Ray did fashion shoots for a living, he also produced beautiful and inventive photos that advanced the medium. In various hijinks experiments, he photographed ordinary things around the house and gave them such a rich depth of tone that they seemed beautiful, like abstract art. He called a photo of an egg whisk Man after himself and the whole of humanity. And he created new techniques, including the Rayogram: the contours of everyday objects magically emerge on paper without anything actually being photographed. The Rayograms are ethereal, light-filled and lovely, though still obviously merely a saucepan...
...Obama campaign wants to demonstrate that they care about the future of the Democratic Party as much as they care about Obama’s own political aspirations, they need to tone down the more sensationalistic aspects of Obama’s political persona. It’s time to see more concrete ideas and less flowery oratory in his speeches. But more importantly, he needs to distance his official campaign from Obama Girl, Black Eyed Peas, and the rest of the grassroots, Obama-obsessed rabble. Cult-like behavior should be left to Ron Paul’s campaign, where...
...There Will Be Blood”: completely exasperated, exhausted and left only to proclaim—spoiler alert!—“I’m finished.” Maybe next year Ganis and crew can take a cue from Hansard and Irglova. Tone down the ceremony a couple of notches, and put those montages on hold. That’s a revelation we can all drink (milkshakes) to. Jessica C. Coggins ’08, a Crimson arts editor, is an English and American literature and languages concentrator in Cabot House...