Word: vast
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Hard-line critics (and in less moderate moments, I have certainly been among them) would do well to remember that the vast majority of Harvard students are willing participants in and beneficiaries of elitism in some form or another. Otherwise we just wouldn't be here. The final clubs may be a particularly easy target, but we glass-house dwellers should think hard before taking aim with our articulately outraged stones...
...more explosive, splintered era in art making than the past 50 years in America. The roll call is dizzying--happenings, body art, minimalism, earthworks, conceptualism, neo-Expressionism, installations--to name just a few of the schools that have swum vigorously or otherwise through public waters. Then there is the vast sweep of photography, from the voluble street scenes of William Klein to the arch self-reflection of Cindy Sherman. And there is video art, whose evolution has fast-forwarded from monochrome navel gazing to gorgeous spectacle in a scant 30 years...
There was no lack of experiment and soul searching in these years. While Warhol was spinning out his sops to celebrities in sycophantic portraits and the swooning talkfests that filled his gossip sheet Interview, much of American art seemed largely earnest--as if it were a vast machine spitting out proof after proof of the solution to what art should mean as war, protest, the surge of feminism and the pulse of disco played themselves out on the nation's stage...
...start in my search for the fear inspiring Sleepy Hollow that hides within the comfortable small town where I grew up. Where better than the home of Washington Irving? I was certain that if the spirit of the Headless Horseman still resided somewhere, it would be in the vast fields that surround Irving's house. So, I headed over to the estate, bought a ticket for the tour and braced myself for what was destined to put a Universal Studios horror tour to shame. Sure, I began to be skeptical when I saw that my tour mates were either hobbling...
...Brown to open the 1999 season, the Yale football team has been on a roll, winning eight games in a row to post its longest winning streak since 1981. After a dismal 1-9 record in Coach Jack Siedlicki's first season at Yale in 1997, the Bulldogs showed vast improvement last year in going 6-4 to finish tied for second in the Ivy League. Siedlicki now looks to take the next step, with his team at 8-1 and poised to take a share of the league title...