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...peripheral perceptions.”She said she intends her works to “point out what we don’t see, what we don’t realize.” The wire portrays the outline of ocean floor terrain near Antarctica, representing an unseen peak and gesturing toward hidden truths. Lin and Menand maintained an easy rapport through the evening, with the professor, one hand pocketed in his navy blazer, sitting with the 46-year-old artist at a small table at the front of the lecture hall. Menand penned a profile...
Second, some say that what feels natural is also moral. Saving an unseen African child just doesn’t feel as necessary as rescuing a child dying in front of one’s own eyes. This is probably the main reason why Americans don’t give more to charity. But no one believes that an act is moral just because it is instinctive. If you think it is, would I be morally justified in punching you in the face just because I felt an urgent need to do so and was genetically predisposed to rage...
...capacity of 240, anywhere from 150-200 tickets a show is an attendance to get excited about, says Hinkle, but many don’t draw that audience. But solely screening seat-fillers runs counter to the underlying ideology of the theater: showcasing important films that might otherwise go unseen. “What we’re trying to do is get to a point where we don’t have to rely on ticket sales,” says Hinkle. At the root of the problem, then, is a set of competing interests: the Brattle would like...
Every morning, at the crack of dawn, they file through the gates unseen. The darkness parts before them as they trudge across the yard. Feeling the autumn chill through their crimson uniforms, they can look forward to a day full of sweeping your trash, scrubbing your floors, and making it possible for you to live the life...
...borrow a word from Lowell’s volume, Carson is the difficult “paramour” who returns now, five years overdue. Her style, though unsettling and unseen for half a decade except in a few journals, becomes familiar as “Decreation” unfolds in lamentable seriousness, producing a book that intimates its few faults and overwhelms all of its readers’ objections...