Word: walks
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...many of my friends back home would have loved to walk through our Career Forum and explore the opportunities that are out there. Sure, those companies come because we're Harvard, but many, many students in Hong Kong and elsewhere are just as qualified--and maybe even more so--to be at this school but simply don't have the needed resources. You just don't go abroad to study when your family can't pay the next month's rent...
...students HBS offers tremendous amounts of capital and an awe-inspiring list of networking contacts, not to mention the promise of an affluent lifestyle after graduation. And now for more than the usual suspects, Eden is just a walk, and an application, away...
...nearest relation, though, is architecture. Through a gap in the wall, you can walk into each of Serra's Torqued Ellipses and contemplate its interior space. Serra got the idea from a Baroque church in Rome: Francesco Borromini's San Carlo alle Quattro Fontane, whose plan is a quatrefoil stretched to a near ellipse. Standing in it, Serra wondered, "What if I turn this form on itself?" But the closest architectural sibling of these new sculptures is the work of Serra's friend Frank Gehry, the designer of the spectacular Guggenheim museum in Bilbao, Spain, with its freely twisted...
...They are vessels that you walk into," says Serra. Well, yes, if vessel means ship rather than pot. They hark back to, and in a sense make concrete, a vivid childhood memory that is quoted in the show's catalog. Serra's father worked in a California shipyard, and the son got to see large new craft being launched. "It was a moment of tremendous anxiety," Serra wrote in 1988, "as the oiler rattled, swayed, tipped and bounced into the sea, half submerged, to then raise and lift itself and find its balance. The ship went through a transformation from...
...hear a lot of people walk up to you on the street and ask you if your penis is O.K. That must be annoying...