Word: acclaimed
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...foremost funny and, second, not idiotic so someone who knows politics would say, ‘Yeah, it’s funny and it actually makes sense,’” he says. Downey, who also wrote the well-received presidential debate sketches in 2000, says that acclaim for individual writers is a relatively new phenomenon. “Having the attention for writers is unusual, and it’s a nice thing,” he says. Colin K. Jost ’04, who has been on the writing staff since 2005 and authored such...
...backbeat. Artists need not be self-consciously serious to be serious. DFA artist Hercules and Love Affair, one of the forerunners of this new set of innovators, is another exemplar of this new, layered dance music. Their eponymously titled debut album has met with both critical and limited commercial acclaim. It is clear then that people are more comfortable with the intersection of divergent styles than ever before, if signaled by nothing else than the sizable crowd for Girl Talk this past weekend at notoriously conservative Harvard. Given this comfort, the question now is how to move past the novelty...
Ibrahim pioneered this defense strategy, trying over 150 cases within the Sharia system and gaining international acclaim in the process...
...more recent “Chocolat” starring Juliette Binoche), is set in post-colonial Cameroon and centers on a French colonialist’s daughter, who must make sense of the uneven racial landscape. “Beau Travail,” which won Denis global acclaim and various awards at a number of prestigious film festivals, is the poetic recollection of a former Foreign Legion officer in Djibouti. Based on Herman Melville’s “Billy Budd,” and set to Benjamin Britten’s opera of the same title...
...Conner first gained attention for his sculpture work. These pieces were composed entirely of objects found in the scrap heaps of San Francisco—bits of cardboard and old building material, torn fabric and thread, pulp serials, broken dolls and, most famously, women’s nylon stockings.Sudden acclaim for his sculpture work and the implied pressures toward more commercial artistic aims elicited a shift in Conner’s medium of choice. In the late-1950s, Conner moved toward filmmaking, bringing the same creative philosophy which had inspired his sculptures to film collages, assembled from varied and seemingly...