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...that these disposable items are the traces left behind by that same group of have-fun-now-deal-with-the-consequences-later friends. For someone whose life is as tinged with sadness as Tillmans’, the poignancy of such banal objects is made apparent, with the vivid color and inherent beauty of them simply a vehicle for grabbing our attention...
...shirt carrying a plastic bag into the club. She was evacuated from Bali and is now in an Australian hospital with extensive burns. The Australian quoted her as saying, "I will never forget his face as long as I live." Perhaps, locked inside Rimbawa's tormented mind, is a vivid picture of that same murderous face...
Curator Wecsler showed some of her own works, the result of a trip funded by the Harvard College Research Program (HCRP) over the summer. Her small and vivid colored-pencil and ink drawings will become part of her senior thesis in East Asian Studies and VES on urbanization in Shanghai and Hong Kong. While their small size limited their ability to represent the vitality of the cityscape, the drawings will be more effective when accompanied by animation and an essay in their final form...
...dances like a spaz. "All of sudden dancing got hard," she writes, showing herself caught between the desire for and dread of carefree dancing. Told in a vaguely chronological order, each vignette explores a different aspect of the change from childhood to the alienated world of the teenager. Particularly vivid is Barry's portrait of her mother, a Filipino immigrant with a nasty streak. The story titled, "The Aswang," ostensibly about a legendary Filipino monster, turns into a fascinating examination of how dysfunctional mother-daughter relationships can turn lead to loving grandmother-granddaughter relationships. While most of the stories...
...domineering accents—lemongrass, basil, shallots. I didn’t expect the typical American palate to be able to hold up against the full assault. There was clearly going to have to be some compromise. Not that this was necessarily a bad thing, of course. I have vivid memories of nasal-laryngeal conflagrations brought about by incendiary Tom Yum soups and innocuously colored green curries...