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...loveliest genre of all is the drunken photos. A growing number of Harvard undergraduates have a penchant for posting photos of themselves and their friends guzzling from beer funnels or passed out on the sticky floor of a sweaty dorm room in Currier House. The captions for such photos usually involve the phrase “OMG was so EFFIN’ trashed DO NOT REMEMBER THIS AT ALL,” or something along those lines. This sort of thing has always puzzled me. What is the value in that pre-hangover photo, and what memory does it preserve...
...that meticulous drudgery pays off in a sparkling finished product. Park and Peter Lord and the hundreds of other genial obsessives over in Bristol have crafted some of the loveliest comic films since Chaplin's. Creature Comforts, Park's day at the zoo with talking animals, and his short films with Wallace the cheese-loving suburban inventor and Gromit his mutely heroic dog, can match any animated films of the past 20 years. But the process cannot be delightful. Most American animators would say it's daft, all that precision-toying with clay, when, these days, computers...
...loveliest number is "Something." All right; it's a great song; if it were done in the dark it would still be wonderful. But Champagne's version is as good as the original, maybe better. Three young women swing, on coat-hanger-shaped trapezes, above a man who yearns for all of them but can possess none. The women's description of arcs and helixes in the air, the grace and complexity of their movements, cast a spell over the audience. It's a mesmerizing form of sorcery in motion...
...lizards came into this how? "I wrote that last section in a farmhouse in Tuscany," Cunningham says. "And every morning the loveliest little greenish-purple lizard would dart back and forth. She had exactly that aspect of intense creaturely otherness. I liked her a great deal." What does it feel like for a Pulitzer winner to put words in the mouth of a lizard? "Dizzying and odd-but that's as it should be," he says. "I just have the very vaguest stirrings of what I want to write next-and again, it's something I can't possibly...
...performance." In prehistoric times, people would sit in a cave around a fire and, says Lepage, "one day, a guy stands up, and the shadow behind him on the wall is the first form of using technology to tell a story." That notion inspires one of K's loveliest moments: the male twin and his court jester make shadow puppets--a rabbit, a dog, a bird--on the wall. Simple magic. So is a dance, by Noriko Takahashi, as the daughter of the Counselor's chief archer, that expresses the purest love through the choreographer's art and the dancer...