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...Adams Art Space. Each piece of visual art was paired with a well known poem that was posted on the wall next to it. Sifuentes uses the visual art to make poetry less foreign and more accessible to students. He notes that the artwork was meant to provide a window into the message and style of the poetry accompanying it, not to depict the poem. “Sometimes people are reticent around poetry,” he says. “We are more visually literate. The artwork is meant to draw us into the poetry itself...
...move earned him admirers and enemies. In 1997 a group of men thought to be from Mugabe's secret service, the Central Intelligence Organization, burst into Tsvangirai's 10th-floor offices in Harare and tried to hurl him through a window, but Tsvangirai fought off his attackers. He formed the opposition MDC in 1999. Despite at least three other attempts on his life and, according to the MDC, four arrests, he has fought Mugabe in every election since...
...design world too, where people like Manolo Blahnik and stores like H&M have rediscovered it for spring. Like all other great design, Marimekko bridges the divide between the utilitarian and the fantastical. One area where fantasy is pivotal is in the retail world, specifically in window display. Nobody designs more magical windows, in my opinion, than New York City's Bergdorf Goodman, where creative director Linda Fargo and her team of visual experts draw on such disparate sources of inspiration as the ho-hum Post-it note and the over-the-top interiors of Tony Duquette. In this special...
...some of the major muggers of international cinema: Mercouri, Akim Tamiroff, Peter Ustinov (who won an Oscar), Titos Vandis and Robert Morley. But the more valuable member is the muscular Gilles Segal, as the acrobat whose job is to be lowered by rope into the hall from a high window, then remove the case, nick the scimitar and replace the case, all without touching the electronically sensitive floor. It's a swell exercise in suspense, and one of Dassin's finest illustrations of men at work, but it doesn't come till 85 mins. into the movie. Most...
...away from Cambridge until greed, jealousy, and casino security derail them.From the opening credits, where the camera pans over the surfaces of playing cards to a dark, flashy casino club, the film is highly stylized and polished. It contains the requisite shots of Ben staring in wonder out the window of a limousine at the gleaming Las Vegas landscape—an unimaginative sequence that’s been repeated in countless other films. But it also features slick camera work that displays the blackjack game from Ben’s point of view and illustrates the nuances...