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...promising nod to “Oliver Twist,” the film sputters to a halt with a script as unbearable as Ebenezer Scrooge. Director Kirsten Sheridan poorly attempts to mix realism and fable, and brings to the screen a sappy story that relies too heavily on the viewer to piece everything together. “August Rush” brings together two charming romantics for a one night stand—Layla (Keri Russell), a budding cellist, and Louis (Jonathan Rhys Meyers), an Irish rocker. Layla’s overprotective father cuts short his daughter?...
...well displayed throughout. Many, such as the ubiquitous lead-glazed plates and platters, hang on the walls with the two-dimensional paper works, while others can be found distributed in cases. A plate by Picasso featuring a crude fish with an unsightly abscess of an eye confronts the viewer entering the second gallery. The cases utilize mirrors to good effect. For instance, a circular mirror reveals the black silhouette of an ancient athlete on the bottom of a Greek oil flask while another makes all of a three-dimensional work visible in lieu of a stand alone case. However...
...some ways I think it’s an almost forgotten tradition in this country—perhaps in the sense that most Americans think these traditions died out long ago, or are no longer viable, or no longer have anything to say to a contemporary viewer,” says Lentz. “What I think is interesting about this collection is that it’s corrective to that perception.” The paintings merge traditional style and the contemporary events in a compelling fashion. Liu Guosong created “High Noon?...
...holder of rare books and manuscripts, is in the process of digitizing selected pieces from its catalog. Medieval manuscripts and digitized papyri can already be found in striking clarity and vivid color online. The digital images may even show more than the naked eye can see; a viewer can enlarge and zoom in on these images to reveal intricate details that might otherwise go unnoticed by the untrained eye. Some works whose delicacy makes their availability severely limited, like the herbarium of Emily Dickinson, can now be viewed online. William P. Stoneman, a librarian at Houghton Library, has seen many...
...voluntarily” work 16 hour days in hazardous working environments. It is curious, then, that they are so uncritical of the degrading character of the sex industry. Pornography commodifies and cheapens one of the most intimate encounters two people can share, and in the process harms both the viewer and the participant. JASON C. MURRAY ’08 Cambridge, MA October...