Word: evening
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...Even in Neel's most trying times, her work demonstrates an absorption of death as well as life into her art. Several of the earliest pieces in the show convey Neel's struggle with the death of her daughter Santillana. "After the Death of a Child" (1927-28) is an especially haunting watercolor: children dressed in red and blue appear on a playground, fenced off from the adults in the black and gray street who have been reduced to figures out of Munch's "Scream"-both elongated and hunched with hollow eyes. Shortly after the burial of her father...
...backgrounds behind them become simpler. The show does not skip over works from Neel's transitional periods, and rightly so-these paintings are essential to the greater comprehension of Neel's progress. Some of the canvases from this time seem to be painful births-one, "Randall in Extremis" (1960), even shows the sitter in a tormented growl-in which Neel's line becomes scraggily and her compositions overcrowded...
...tensions in the Middle East escalated yesterday, members of Harvard-Radcliffe Hillel and the Society for Arab Students (SAS) said they were planning events to maintain positive relations between the two communities even though plans for a joint vigil earlier this week failed due to differing objectives...
...Yale will give us a tough game, they always do," said senior midfielder Meredith Stewart. "Since they're coming off a huge win, it will give us more to consider. They'll be even more excited to beat...
...playing the best we've played all season," Stewart said. "But we can play even better. And we will need to play better because we have a tough stretch coming...