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...answers may finally be found. The mountain is dotted with white and silver observatory domes, sprouting like oversize mushrooms from the barren, rocky rubble that was once molten lava and, much later, a holy place of the native Hawaiian people. And although it's not obvious to the casual visitor, these domes conceal stargazing machines of unprecedented power...
Alas, childhood's innocence was bound to end sometime, and, as a mature visitor to the Fogg's exhibit Philip Guston: A New Alphabet (and new devotee of museum wall-text and peripheral literature), I was taken aback to discover that Guston's coneheads are, in fact, Ku Klux Klan members, that the cycloptic heads (not shown in this exhibition) are representations of a bedridden Guston himself, that the fairy-tale sphinx of "Nile" (1977) is an ailing wife. Symbolic, after all. But, as Guston reminisces in the excellent film documentary of his career, A Life Lived (1980), on view...
...says. "I learned not to be a ringleader or a crowd follower." Passing near Harlem Park, his old middle school, he seems embarrassed by the boarded-up row houses, the trash-strewn streets, the bars on the school windows. Like a nervous out-of-towner, Brandon begs a visitor to speed up the car. "I never go outside," he says. "I ain't associatin' with them hoodlums...
...made in 1973. The manufacturer had recognized the defects in the press in 1974 and altered the model, but neglected to tell previous buyers about the danger the machines posed. Under this bill, Gonzalez would have been unable to sue for non-economic injuries. Had the machine injured a visitor to the plant as well, the visitor would have been able to sue, but not Gonzalez. As a final injustice, even though Gonzalez would be shut out of the courts, his employer would still be able to sue to recover the profits he lost over the episode. Most remarkable...
...about how wonderful he found his first week at Harvard. He recalled dining with a Nobel laureate and hearing an address by Grigoriy Yavlinsky. The latter he described (in the finest parenthetical name-dropping style) as the future president of Russia. Yavlinsky, a liberal politician and frequent Harvard visitor, is a laughingstock in Russia whose share of the presidential vote has never reached the double-digits...