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...dislike the way they were described in the catalogue, I have to admit that I found several of the pieces quite affecting—I can still close my eyes and see that absurdly overwrought chandelier flashing poetry like an SOS. So I’m not saying that visual or experiential qualities are not grounds for evaluating art, I’m just saying that if we are going to use them as criteria we might as well admit it so that we can talk about and refine our approach. More or less the same goes for the meaning...
Some skeptics may doubt the legitimacy of a theater program at Harvard or wonder how a rigorous academic structure can be applied to a creative process. According to Kiely, the integrity of artistic degree programs was also questioned during the development of the visual and environmental studies concentration. In terms of scholastic intensity and liberal arts approach, one can look again to the music department, in which joint concentration gives students an opportunity to research a broad range of topics. Recent joint theses have included such diverse fields as mathematics, social anthropology, romance languages and psychology (theses in the latter...
...Jude Law), an obituary writer and aspiring novelist, shares a moment of charged visual contact with a beautiful girl as he makes his way to work in London one day. Her name is Alice (Natalie Portman)—a hip, self-assured New Yorker who has just arrived in the city. An accident while crossing the street puts her in the hospital and Dan, although still a stranger to her, remains close by to offer help...
Using these lists of names, Mobius and Niehaus will be able to create a visual map of social networks at Harvard to see how friendship networks and cliques develop across demographic lines...
World War II veterans lauded Steven Spielberg for his chaotically realistic representation of the storming of Omaha Beach. Fuller was a veteran of that invasion himself, and he strove for something other than purely visual realism. Like Spielberg, he was working to convey the brutality of war but, as Connor explains, “unlike in Saving Private Ryan, it was never an exercise in verisimilitude but rather an exercise in filmmaking.” A master of the overstatement, Fuller’s abrupt humor, drama, and violence serve as a means—not an end?...