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...reality, senior gift revenues go to “unrestricted funds” that “allow Harvard to address immediate priorities.” The donor does not decide whether to support, for example, “senior thesis work” in Visual and Environmental Studies or “professionalization of assistant coaching ranks.” None of that has “significant leverage on society,” although it does have significant leverage on very narrow segments of the Harvard population. Students passionate about breast cancer research or AIDS in Africa should...
...described as "muted" gives the outward appearance of calm only by stifling a churning agitation inside. While not so desirable in a personality, "muted" artworks have a long history. Brass horns with dampers stuffed inside are the most obvious example, but there are muted works in the visual arts as well. The comix work of Carol Swain, for instance, has a cool exterior that muffles an agitated, jangly inner life...
...This mood of "Foodboy" develops chiefly from Swain's remarkable comix pacing. She uses slam cuts to jump from one time and place to another, in mid-page with no visual cues, keeping you guessing about where and when a scene takes place. It's the kind of pleasant discombobulation you get from a midway hall of mirrors. You feel your way through. Swain also frequently inserts mute sequences that feel like poetic interludes. The narrative breathes. Her "camera" swirls around its subjects while they do nothing more than walk and light a cigarette. Each frame of a Carol Swain...
...death. Here, the son of God is a wholly human figure, and Gibson constantly reminds his audience of this with an unceasing depiction of shredded flesh and spattered blood. The effect is alternately piercing and numbing. Nevertheless, Gibson eventually succeeds in overwhelming his audience with the kind of potent visual poignancy unseen in his previous directorial work. The telling of the story is equally effective, as screenwriters Gibson and Benedict Fitzgerald (Wise Blood) find most of their narrative might in the passion plays’ minor characters. Though violence is the film’s major theme, what resonates from...
Nicole A. Salazar ’06 is a visual and environmental studies concentrator in Currier House. Kevin P. Connor ’04-’05 is a history and literature concentrator in Dudley House. They are members of the Harvard Initiative for Peace and Justice...