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...festival's center of gravity, however, was far away from this kind of well-made dramaturgy. Three of the six full-length works presented (along with a program of 10-minute plays, one of the festival's signature events, and an evening of sketches showcasing the apprentice troupe) were experimental, non-narrative works. Wild Blessings: A Celebration of Wendell Berry, directed and co-written by artistic director Masterson, is a gracefully staged pastiche of the writings of bucolic Kentucky poet Wendell Berry, but is a little too high-minded and low-energy for my tastes. I had more fun with...
...explore philosophy before. In her 2005 documentary “Žižek!” she followed Marxist philosopher Slavoj Žižek on his lecture tour, and he makes an appearance again in “Examined Life”—along with seven other modern thinks, including University of Chicago professor Martha Nussbaum, “Empire” author Michael Hardt, and feminist post-structuralist Judith Butler. Despite her experience, Taylor reveals her anxieties about making philosophical film in a conversation with NYU professor Avital Ronell, the first onscreen thinker...
...garage-rock sound of which feels appropriate given the album’s focus on cars. Most of the songs feel like they should be played full-volume while driving with the sunroof down through deserted highways of the Mid-West, rocking some shades, all the while bobbing along to the rhythm. This playfulness comes through in Young’s lyrics as well. The album’s title track, released in January this year with an accompanying video of Young playing air guitar to the song and wearing earphones that connect up to an apple?...
...whenever he’s in the game we’re feeling pretty confident,” Douglas said. “He was throwing strikes and his breaking stuff was really good today, in addition to the fastball.”Freshmen Jonah Klees and Marcus Way, along with sophomore Dan Berardo, also saw time on the mound for Harvard, as the visitors held a potent Bryant offense to only two runs for the remainder of the contest.With the Bulldogs bats in check, the Crimson began to show life in the fifth inning. Junior first baseman Dan Zailskas...
Problems at Home If there is one region in South Africa on which the ANC might have focused its efforts to build democracy and progress, it is the Eastern Cape around East London. Drive out of the city and after an hour you descend into a steep, forested canyon along whose floor snakes the River Kei, the old boundary between white-run South Africa and the rolling prairies which apartheid authorities designated the black "homeland" of Transkei, meaning "across the Kei." During apartheid, the Transkei was a place of destitution: thousands of mud-walled, grass-roofed huts where people lived...