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...whole, the Conservatory's production of "Legends of Dance" left one with both a sense of spiritual fulfillment and a Gershwin-induced grin. One hopes that the Conservatory can maintain this happy medium of avante-garde and traditional flavors of dance...
...excitement of Eliante (Claire Farley '01) and Philinte (Julio Gambuto '00), the one happy couple to emerge from Celimene's downfall. Both had been voices of moderation during the play, striking a balance between politeness and honesty. Ruiz leaves us wondering whether the kind of happy medium that rewards the lovers might have been Moliere's intended moral when he wrote The Misanthrope over 300 years ago. Any production that can both amuse and engage its audience so effectively should be considered a resounding success...
...movie Pleasantville marks the second time this year that Hollywood has turned its cameras on itself, with interesting and imaginative results. The first, of course, was The Truman Show, which took television to task for diverting our attention from the real world, accusing the medium of (literally) caging the human spirit in a dome of artifice. TV figures prominently in the complex morality of Pleasantville as well, but the movie is anything but just another case of the media being cynical about the effects of the media (which, by the way, we've had quite enough of). Pleasantville...
...simple, idiom of his father's relatives. "Scullions," according to Heaney, had just as much right to Beowulf as the Early English Text Society. After all, the geographically-defined "England" does not exclusively own what is called the English language. Though he is considered an Irish poet, Heaney's medium is exactly that language which is not contained by national boundaries...
...prowess of the man who, along with McKellan, is the only artist behind this project. The film is based on the novella of the same name by Stephen King, whose fiction, which can feel somewhat pulpy on the page, seems to come into its own via the overpoweringly visceral medium of the big screen...