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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...this assumption that the Institute of Contemporary Art attempts to contradict with its most recent show, From a Distance: Approaching Landscape, a selection of works by 13 contemporary artists. The curators assert that the traditional, romantic notion of landscape, while extinct, has been subsumed into our technological culture. The contemporary revision of landscape, they admit, requires an increasing distance from a traditional experience of nature, as well as an exploration of old issues such as the natural sublime. Also, modernity's telescopic ability to travel impossible distances, from macroscopic aerial overviews and topographical maps to microscopic cellular diagrams, must inform...

Author: By John Hulsey, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Fake Plastic Trees: The Future of Landscape at the ICA | 10/6/2000 | See Source »

...press time, Mayer had yet to respond to the grievance, but, former dining hall managers say, clashes like these contradict the "participative management" style Mayer says he applies to his 650 employees...

Author: By Geoffrey A. Fowler and Victoria C. Hallett, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERSS | Title: Harvard's New Dining Halls Work - But Are Workers Happy? | 6/8/2000 | See Source »

Because the Changs are not students, the Committee on Student Life questioned their prominent role in TCF's decision to exclude heterodox students--that is, students whose beliefs contradict the orthodox perspective--from the group's leadership team...

Author: By Benjamin D. Grizzle, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Tufts Christian Fellowship Re-Recognized by Student Government | 5/19/2000 | See Source »

...complex that, in places, Ragozzino and director Andrew Boch '02 seem to struggle with understanding their own universe. One awkward example arises from the fact that both Chaffin and John Gravois play Matthew Circland at age 42, yet Gravois has been 42 for 21 years. This seems to contradict the text's own (generally acceptable) logic. The problem manifests itself as a result of the overlap in the existence of the two Matthews. While other Matthews appear (Jeff Klann, age 21 and Matthew Ciborowski, age 12), Chaffin's Matthew clashes less directly with them; they exist as memories (whether based...

Author: By Matthew Hudson, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Clocking Time | 5/12/2000 | See Source »

...freedom of fiction, she said, allows the writer to contradict herself. Sontag said she often changes her mind about something she has written almost as soon as she has written it. Fiction, Sontag said, allows for her to be flexible in her writing...

Author: By Katherine M. Marino, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Feminist Author Sontag Discusses New Novel About Immigrant Life | 4/5/2000 | See Source »

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