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...moody like Boston.” Last Friday, Bulgarians and their friends came together in Boylston Hall for an Harvard-style Sedianka. It was your typical college party but with less booze and more traditional meat dishes from the old country. Harvard and MIT students alike exchanged handmade yarn dolls and traded in their English names for questionable Bulgarian renditions. But the cultural shindig didn’t really get going until the Bulgarians hit the dance floor. Kaloyan S. Slavov ’07 led a line of experienced Bulgarians and painfully clueless amateurs to the center...
...video isn’t about trying to say something new; it’s about fun, friends, and fish. Telling the tragic tale of a retired tidal traveler, the video shows a few old salts recalling their glory days on the ocean over pints of grog. But one yarn seems to top them all: Brock’s story about pursuing the one fish that got away. We are taken through the expert mariner’s trials, and we get to see how he lost his hand. The lyrics themselves actually have nothing to do with the video...
...different fabrics, fuse them together." Looking even further ahead, to spring 2008, he says textile mills are using lots of sculpting and etching techniques that create a kind of bas-relief effect on fabric. A traditional, rich fabric like silk shantung, for example, will be woven with very coarse yarn and linen hemp so that the surface looks embroidered, "almost in an arte povera way," Uslenghi says...
...toppings on an oversize novelty sundae. Maddening as its mystery could be (O.K., so the smoke monster was set up by the Others who live by the four-toed statue and--hang on, let me grab a pencil ...), great writing, tantalizing details and ever richer characters made it a yarn worth getting more deeply entangled...
However, Margaret Adachi’s “Rapture” is so bizarre as to cast doubt on its merit as art. The plush red cow reclining on a stool—udders erect and yarn pubic hair apparent—could easily have been imagined as part of some sort of senior prank...