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...studio of Vi T. Vu ’10 is stacked with paintings. Vividly fluorescent animal and vegetal figures leap across dark backgrounds, multiplying in mirror images of each other. Look more closely, and strange themes begin to emerge: anthropomorphic shapes, images of violence and renewal, all come together in a series of intricately-articulated symbolic forms. All orders and variety are thrown together, but the composition is far from careless. Vu, has created her own, hard-to-catagorize, world...
...individuality stands out in Harvard’s competitive culture of networking and self-promotion. Vu is neither averse to nor solely motivated by exhibiting her work. Beattie commends this quality, noting that it speaks to Vu’s intense, personal engagement with her art. “[Vi is] not terribly moved by exhibition. She’s looking for a certain kind of standard… a more personal pursuit of something truly good.” Vu, Beattie says, is not looking for approbation from a larger community, but rather a sense of personal self-satisfaction...
...wake of Avatar, do you have people come up to you conversing in Na'vi? Jim Cameron and I did have two people come up to us that were painted blue. They are out there...
...broke out on Pfoho's open list after Sigmund Freud invited subscribers to "bring it like the cheerleaders in that terrible teen movie." Later, Elizabeth I and Mary I accused each other of heresy and papism before Henry VIII stepped in to claim England's throne for Edward VI. In response, God accused these "royal buffoons" of fraud, Friedrich Nietzsche announced, "God is dead," and many readers were left wondering "what the pfuck is going...
...stands accused of poorly handling the case of a pedophile priest when he was Archbishop of Munich and Freising in the early 1980s. While there's virtually no chance of the Pope himself being brought down - the last time a Pontiff bowed out in disgrace was in 1046 (Gregory VI, for financial impropriety) - it is entirely possible the scandals will permanently sully his papacy. "This is going to be a major part of his legacy," says an American priest in Rome who asked not to be named. (See pictures of Pope Benedict XVI visiting America...