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...Plymouths, but sometimes Renaults. Schulze's world is effused with this odd combination of German sensibility and American kitsch. Why Schulze's characters prefer to drive around in Plymouths rather than Benzes is intriguing in that it cannot be a purely economic consideration. We soon begin to realize the tacit commentary that is being made. The Wall is down, but westernization is not restitution enough, leaving more wanderers than homesteaders. Indeed, Schulze's world is more bazaar than bizarre. But this is hardly to say that it's bargain basement Kafka. Rummaging through the apparently artless language leads the reader...
...some things right. For one, a substantial portion of the movie is devoted to crew--several characters, including Jackson, are on the team. Definitely believable. Pushing and shoving in the dining hall by know-it-alls trying to prove themselves brings Annenberg to mind. And there is a tacit distinction between the "haves" and the "have-nots" which is not entirely foreign at our own University...
...tacit defiance, one of Peter Richards's sculptures mischievously calls out a challenge to M.C. Escher's ants. The sculpture, a hyper-rotated Mbius strip made of discarded metal vent-covers and fibrous tissue paper, partially lacquered with beeswax, is titled "Sleep with Me." Richards claims with all honesty that this is not meant to be an overt sexual solicitation. "It's more of an invitation," he says, to experience what he calls "osmosis," an existence as form rather than idea. But it's difficult to look at "Bride" and not see in it a female praying mantis made...
Next year, however, Harvard University Dining Services (HUDS) plans to implement a nightly midnight snack--a sign that Harvard is moving toward a tacit acknowledgement of students' 24-hour lifestyle...
...available to others, the spirit of a fair election is violated. Furthermore, we are dismayed that the polarizing issue of race has been injected into the debate, and Driskell and Burton's failure to condemn the irresponsible insinuations of racial prejudice against their political opposition can be seen as tacit encouragement...