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...early years. From his first feature through five more films, culminating with his international hit Woman on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown, Maura always grounded the director's flights of cinematic and sexual fantasy. But after the breakthrough with Breakdown came a public breakup. After two films with Victoria Abril, Almodovar made five features (all terrific) with five different actresses in the lead roles. Bad Education had no significant female roles at all, as this one has no dominant males...
...Central Australia; to his joy, artists had taken over the town, some even gathering in his front yard to paint. "There were few places in Papunya that had front lawns and I inherited the policeman's house," recalls Batty, now senior curator for Central Australian Collections at Museum Victoria. "And people like Clifford Possum and Johnny Warangkula used to come around and paint." He was met with an altogether different picture on returning recently. In nearby Alice Springs, he found budget hotels "chock-a-block full of artists, pumping the art out. I've got mixed feelings about it," Batty...
...Gagadju people, made the first commission of Aboriginal art. Painted on a small rectangular piece of stringybark by a now unknown artist, the white ibis was depicted in the X-ray style expressed in rock art for thousands of years. Bound for the then National Museum of Victoria, Aboriginal art made its first serious impression on Western eyes. Fifty years later, the people of Yirrkala revived the tradition for a historic land claim in Australia's federal parliament, with the so-called "bark petition"; one of its authors was Yunupingu's father, Munggurruwuy. In humble ocher on bark, it demonstrated...
...award are Jenny Davis, Jessica M. Marglin, Michael P. Marotta, Bridget D. Samuels, and Han Yu, all from Dudley House, as well as Class of 2005 members Alexander J. Blenkinsopp, Melissa L. Dell, Philip Dreyfuss, David R. Ferris, Micah N. Fitzerman-Blue, Ryan M. Geraghty, Rebecca Kastleman, and Victoria Wobber.Four students were given honorable mentions: Milena M. Andzelm from Winthrop House, Mark B. Geyer from Adams House, Caitlin W. Hicks from Lowell House, and Kierann E. Smith from Eliot House.—Staff writer Alexandra C. Bell can be reached at acbell@fas.harvard.edu...
...consumer class and bringing signs of prosperity to the long-suffering hinterland. Although the distribution of wealth is far from egalitarian--the rich are getting a lot richer, corruption is endemic, and millions continue to struggle--the good life is in reach for more Russians than ever before. Victoria Grankina, a Moscow-based retail expert, estimates that 30% of the population lives "fairly comfortably" on monthly incomes averaging $1,000 for a family of four. The number of mobile phones has soared from 12 for every 100 Russians in 2002 to 88 today. Sales of new foreign cars jumped...