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...discuss the day's punishing schedule over breakfast. After that it's a parade of songs and screaming fans and one or two cool 3D effects. In other words, pretty dreary. Wear a watch, so you'll have something else to look at occasionally and can gauge the length of your nap. The trailers before the movie, for Ice Age and Up and Monsters vs. Aliens were all also in 3D. After they're done, the entertainment factor drops precipitously...
...despite the fervor and length of the e-mail responses, few QSA members who were not on the board attended yesterday’s open board meeting, and no objections to the new name were raised at that time...
When George Balanchine’s “Jewels” first premiered at New York City Ballet in 1967 it was one of his boldest experiments yet—a full-length ballet without a narrative. The Boston Ballet is bringing the performance to life again, articulating every move with an infectious sense of energy and commitment to the art.The ballet is divided into a triptych—“Emeralds,” “Rubies,” and “Diamonds”—with each segment evoking an aspect...
...Marquis contemplates the mysteries of Tepe Zargaran that he will never be able to unravel, a shout rings out from the other side of the excavation site. Ahmad Basir, a grinning 19-year-old, holds aloft a clay urn the length of his forearm. It took Basir several hours of painstaking work with a scalpel to free the artifact from the earth where it had lain. Before the archaeologists came, he explains, looters would simply hack away at a site with axes and shovels until they found statues or gold jewelry. "We didn't care about pots," he says...
...hardly blame a publisher for wanting to play it safe in these economically treacherous, print-endangered times. But was it really necessary to ape Johnson's motivational manual Who Moved My Cheese? in every way, from its distinctive cover to its format (inspirational parable) to its length (fleeting)? Granted, the author's previous book was a No. 1 blockbuster that sold more than 20 million copies worldwide, but the difference is that his original was far superior: a deceptively simple but ultimately smart lesson on coping with the inevitability of change. Here, the penses are punier. A confused young...