Word: amateurness
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Fastidious and intelligent, Richter's art looks unblinkingly at the world through pre-existing images--amateur and police photos, news clippings and the like--that have no glamour, that intend to sell nothing (unlike American Pop Art) and that are, in effect, the very scurf and dandruff of common life. At the same time they are very German, being pure vernacular. Like most photo-derived art, Richter's reproduces poorly. He has not shown much in the U.S. He is not about lapel-grabbing fictions of urgency; in fact his work, when first seen, looks quite eerily cold...
Students have also taken the initiative to form support organizations for musicians who don’t inherently fit into the orchestral unit. The Harvard Piano Society provides a meeting forum for amateur and serious pianists and organizes master classes and recitals. They often provide much-needed accompanists for many productions and pairs duets. Founder of the Harvard Piano Society Aaron Miller ’02 said, “We saw a need for greater performance opportunity for Harvard pianists, because the only thing available before were the concerto competitions.” Since founding the organization last year...
Star Wars II: Attack of the Clones (May 16): So the title sounds like an amateur B-grade horror movie and sure, Jar Jar Binks makes his return as the most annoying character ever captured on celluloid, but nothing could deter die-hard fans from this latest installment in George Lucas’ Star Wars saga. Luke is still but a glint in his father’s eye as Natalie Portman and Hayden Christensen pursue their ill-fated love affair between battles with Jedi Rebel Dooku and his band of cloned droids. Will the “force?...
...seems odd at first, all this low-slung elegance in the middle of a desert. In fact, it was almost inevitable, as Tony Merchell, an amateur architectural historian who has been deeply involved in the town's historic-preservation movement, told me. Wealthy Eastern and Midwestern business people followed movie stars to Palm Springs in the 1940s and '50s, at just the moment when Modernism was taking hold in California...
...time, professional athletes did not masquerade as amateurs. In 1906, the NCAA bylaws defined amateur competition as preventing “the offering of inducements to players to enter colleges or universities because of their athletic abilities or supporting or maintaining players while students on account of their athletic abilities, either by athletic organizations, individual alumni, or otherwise, directly or indirectly.” Not only does Harvard remunerate their athletic recruits with one of the best educations in the world but also with the benefits a Harvard degree confers—something the money of hundreds of athletics scholarship...