Word: effortless
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Amongst the cavalcade of colored sneakers and couture eyeglass frames, Sabrina Chou ’09 makes her presence felt with an effortless twist of red fabric. A Senior VES concentrator living in Quincy, Chou, known to some only as “bow girl,” is currently working on her thesis, entitled “Standard Operating Procedure.” The project explores the reductive nature of the process of production through art. The centerpiece is an exhibit, opening this Thursday in the Sert Café, in which many “toolkits?...
...songs on this album revel in a joyous silliness that might seem cutesy in the hands of a less experienced band. But Super Furry Animals are grizzled veterans—this is their ninth studio album—and “Dark Days/Light Years” feels effortless, the work of a highly skilled group of musicians having fun with each other.The prevailing happiness does not preclude SFA from ambition or from surprising the listener; after all, sudden and often bizarre sonic transitions are a tradition with this band. Take the opener, “Crazy Naked Girls...
...dance was divided into an opening and four subsequent parts strikingly offset by the change in colors of the background. The combination of the skillfully composed gamelan music and visually appealing dancing influenced by South Asian traditions coalesced beautifully together. Some of the dancing, however, seemed to lack the effortless flow and clear-cut motion that is required of such a piece. The much-anticipated United States premiere of “The Rite of Spring” choreographed by Jaime Blanc, one of the most highly regarded dancers in Mexico, was by no stretch of the imagination the supposed...
...Thanks to Obama’s successful visit, the Czech Republic now knows the caliber of leader with whom they will be working. But the world should no longer be surprised by Obama’s grace and dignity or his constant, effortless self-awareness. Obama could walk into almost any room of strangers and produce that sort of result. Perhaps the most important message of his speech was this: that the United States is back as a robust political force, and the dynamism of its leader cannot be ignored...
...maybe, on some subconscious level, we never wanted the damn thing, as evidenced by popular culture's button-free futures. In sci-fi thrillers like Minority Report, computers are flat, seamless digital panels, controlled with an effortless swipe of the hand or the twist of a finger...