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...Yourself,” Damián Ortega’s new exhibition at the Institute of Contemporary Art, is so densely packed that at first its full scale can be difficult to grasp. Between the disassembled and suspended 1989 Volkswagen Beetle, the revolving tower of oil barrels, and the clump of leather ribbons hanging from the ceiling by meat hooks, every one of these larger than life installation pieces seems to be wrestling for attention. Although Damián Ortega now lives in Berlin, Germany, his roots in Mexico City remain a strong influence on his work...
...flexibility of the SDM Hand lets it conform to and grasp objects of different sizes and shapes that may not be in the position predicted—in other words, the environment found outside of the laboratory, added Dollar...
...more than that. In tough economic times, we rely on sport's sense of fairness, its heroes, for much needed relief. The worlds of business and finance and politics seem to be so full of deception that we like to grasp onto the idea - naïve though this may be - that a football match or a motor race can provide a moment of liberation from all that. So when sportsmen or women cheat - scandals have sullied the image of baseball, cricket, cycling, rugby and soccer in recent times - the disservice to fans, and the damage done to sports...
...look okay?” Sander asked one audience member as he rushed to the stage to meet his love Mia. Though it may not at all resemble the theater that modern audiences are accustomed to, “The Donkey Show” demonstrates a definite grasp of the theatrical, capturing Paulus’ conception for the audience interaction and excitement to come at the A.R.T. —Staff writer Beryl C.D. Lipton can be reached at blipton@fas.harvard.edu...
...President's advisers grasp the urgency of the task. "Would I like Americans to be more skilled?" Summers muses. "Yes. Would I like to be able to increase skill faster than is likely to be possible? Sure. Would I like a larger fraction of good entrepreneurial ideas to happen in the U.S.? Of course. There are millions of people who need work." But Summers need only read his own research to recall that traditional government policies are not going to pull us out of the job trap...