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Weiss’s piece, “The Four Temperaments,” was originally choreographed by Balanchine, the Russian-born ballet dancer and choreographer who moved ballet away from fairy tales and fluffy tutus and instead emphasized balance and angular, technical movement...
...witnessed the "angular" approach for myself two years ago when Cornell University permitted me to observe its admissions meetings. In Cornell's distinct parlance, renaissance students were dubbed "spread too thin." The admission officers also had a highly refined ability to detect whether kids were undertaking activity after activity to pad their resumes - or out of genuine enthusiasm. Sometimes this was just a hunch, other times committee members added up the time students claimed to spend on various extracurriculars only to realize the total exceeded the number of hours in a school week. In the final decision-making process, idiosyncrasy...
...Admissions officers are drawn to "angular kids, those with a much more focused interest or talent...
...determined. They do everything right and most of them don't have a chance of getting in. . .unless they discover a protein or publish a novel, they are going to look a lot like all of the other qualified applicants." Instead, Toor says, admissions officers are drawn to "angular kids, those with a much more focused interest or talent...
...Fonda and screenwriter Robert Mark Kamen fly the Stars and Stripes. But the secret ingredient is Luc Besson, the French auteur (Nikita, The Fifth Element) who produced Dragon, wrote the story, set the dark, violent tone, signed French music-video ace Chris Nahon to direct and chose Karyo, the angular menacer who shone in Nikita, to play the spuming villain. The film's other star is Paris. Like any self-respecting thriller set in a famous city, Dragon stages action scenes in many local landmarks: the MEtro, a bateau mouche, the gorgeous Gare de l'Est, the Regina Hotel...