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...play Babette, the feisty French maid.RR: How’s that going?IM: Well, I was hoping for the typical slutty French maid costume. You know, the black and white, super short with the fishnets and stuff. But apparently that stereotype wasn’t invented until the twentieth century or something, so I’m wearing a dress and a silly apron. It’s not quite seductive but I’ll find a way to show cleavage.RR: Are you now considering a career in housekeeping?IM: I’m really fond of dusting...
...drawings” on glass; “drawings” on textiles; “drawings” on ceramics; even a “drawing” on a limestone flake. There are also more conventionally-defined “drawings” on paper; a twentieth-century nude by Elie Nadelman shares a wall with works by Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres, Edgar Degas, and an anonymous nineteenth-century artist in Rajasthan, India, among others. The show is organized thematically rather than chronologically or geographically. The seemingly incongruous juxtapositions create a surreal space in which a punch bowl...
...20th century was a time of unprecedented progress, Tisch Professor of History Niall Ferguson said yesterday. Life expectancy soared, quality of life improved, and democracy spread. But why was the twentieth century also the bloodiest? According to Ferguson, who spoke to a crowd of 20 students at Hilles as part of the “Coffee with a View” series yesterday afternoon, the answer lies partly in that very progress. In a talk entitled, “The War of the World,” Ferguson argued that the major ingredients for world war continue to loom today...
...other specialized genre, in that the biggest names still remain unknown to most generalists. M.F.K. Fisher, Elizabeth David, Laurie Colwin—such great masters of culinary writing go unrecognized by the American public. But despite their anonymity, food writers have crafted some of the best prose of the twentieth century. They face a unique challenge in trying to represent in words experiences that are primarily smell- and taste-oriented. Laurie Colwin, a little-known author who, during her short life, published a few novels and several stories in the New Yorker, is one of the great American food writers...
However, some Harvard faculty expressed concern that Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory—which operated as a eugenics lab in the early twentieth century—may have more trouble fundraising given Watson’s departure...