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...service, which was broadcast outside over loudspeakers and on three mammoth television screens that had been erected in Hyde and Regent's parks, lasted just over an hour. It demonstrated again the soothing, cathartic power of ritual, the way in which ceremony can provide a shared context for personal grief. There were two dramatic diversions from the normal order of things. First, Elton John sang Candle in the Wind, a song he had originally written to celebrate Marilyn Monroe, with the lyrics revised to honor his friend Diana. A number of people had questioned the propriety of a rock star...
...performance of his single, “What’s up Fatlip?” It was an eccentric decision—since the song was his only biggest hit and something that the audience surely wanted to hear—made sensible only in the context of the eccentric vibe of the entire Blackalicious show last Tuesday night at the Paradise Rock Club in Boston. Perhaps because of Boston’s semi-segregated design or the price of tickets, but the Caucasian to African-American ratio of the audience seemed similar to the ratio running for office...
...Although the classes are instructed by Divelbliss, eight of the 10 numbers in tonight’s concert showcase student choreography. According to Todorova, the audience should “expect to see a lot of diversity in the pieces. Every choreographer has done something slightly intriguing in the context of their own work. If you’ve never seen a HRDC show, it’s very innovative dance [with] a lot of interesting and original ideas.” The concert’s musical selection epitomizes HRDC’s celebration of diversity. Tonight?...
...This generation grew up in the context of 9/11 and the Iraq war. These are two formative events, and I think we’re going to see a generation that’s more multilateral in terms of foreign affairs...
This is not to say that Paglia’s essays don’t contain important and novel insights. She notes the subtle interplay of themes and images between different poems, and seamlessly integrates historical context and contemporary allusion. Her discussion of the fallen tyrant in Shelley’s “Ozymandias,” for instance, touches on the resonance of the poem in post-Napoleonic Europe, as well as noting that “modern readers may find the clarity of conception and execution of ‘Ozymandias’ especially compelling because Shelley?...