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DEERHOOF THE RUNNERS FOUR Some albums are easy to love. This is not one of them. At first, The Runners Four is close to incomprehensible. Songs stop as soon as a hook seems to form; rhythms shift and cut like they're running for their lives. It's art rock, as evidenced by the affectless pronunciation of singer and bassist Satomi Matsuzaki, but when the mystery lifts and the melodies finally stick--and they do--the album has the undeniable power of complete originality...
...Said” and Georg Baselitz’s “Triangle” turn a usually simple medium—oil on canvas—into a workout for your retinas. One can’t help but struggle to shift the focus from the painting’s surface to what is below, over and over again. At over two-and-a-half meters high each, both paintings are bold, bursting with color and texture. The physical material of the paint seems to extend off of the canvas towards the viewer, while the colors seep...
...method is a study in minimalism: he possesses the uncanny ability to make a seemingly blank expression convey great depths of emotion. In the movie’s closing minutes, Walt and his father share a heart-to-heart in a hospital room: Eisenberg communicates Walt’s shift from a doting to a profoundly disappointed son with the faintest alteration in voice and countenance. The camera is infrequently still in “Squid,” but when it does stop, it is usually on Eisenberg’s strangely affecting face. Some will complain that...
...report writes that the Core’s current requirements “lack a compelling educational rationale” for the restrictions placed on students. It describes a need for a dramatic shift in general education away from the specificity that has troubled the Core in recent years...
...busy city, vaguely mouthing lies like, “I’m all out of change, sorry.”Homelessness has reached a kind of equilibrium, both in Harvard Square and our society in general. We are occasionally guilted into a handout or a food pantry shift, but nothing changes—worse or better—and ignorance is always an easy choice. But after three years of wading through urine in the streets and seeing people sleep outside in freezing temperatures, I’m sick of it.At the risk of surprising a lot of people...