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...mood was tense. The players were focused. The balls were flying. In the first rounds of the “Harvard Table Single Player Tournament,” held last Sunday night in the Malkin Athletic Center, table tennis players engaged in a heated battle of the ball. Competition brewed, with players ranging from Harvard College freshmen to a Winthrop House security guard. “It’s fun and easy to learn,” says Katrina L. Welch ’11, one of many players to talk about the relaxing aspects of the pong...
...rehearsal eight hours a day, so by the time we started staging the play (in the third week) we had already almost memorized all the lines after two weeks reading out loud.THC: What was it like working with the director? How did you feel about the unusual style and mood of the production?JTF: [Director Arthur Nauzyciel] is excellent. His visual sense is really sophisticated, and he loves actors and cares deeply about the performance. In a way, he tries to make his productions both shocking and beautiful. He explained many of his ideas for the production at our first...
...becomes the issue. We discovered in the survey, and it bears itself out in my practice, that the person with the lower sex drive controls the sexual relationship, not out of a need to manipulate or control, but because they have veto power. If they're not in the mood, it doesn't happen. There's an unspoken agreement: the person with the lower desire expects his or her spouse to accept it, not complain about it, and also to be monogamous. In my years in working with couples, that's pretty much an unfair and unworkable arrangement...
...late Oct. 1941, was possibly the very first movie to be influenced by Citizen Kane (which came out less than six months before). This short film, with Joseph Schildkraut as the guilt-stricken killer, is positively a-swill in Wellesian tropes: the crouching camera, the chiaroscuro lighting, the mood-deepening use of silences and sound effects. But MGM wasn't a studio that encouraged innovation or eccentricity, and Dassin's seven feature films there are program pictures that hold no, repeat, no hint of his future gift for putting torment and teamwork on film...
...Apes movie (which spawned four sequels, only one of which Heston appeared in) shows that in Vietnam-era science fiction, no less than in other films of the period, happy endings were not mandatory. Even escapist films offered scant chance of escape from the sour national mood. The 1971 The Omega Man (recently remade with Will Smith as I Am Legend) was another dystopian fantasy film. Again Heston was possibly the last human on earth, battling predatory subhuman creatures who might have been the Black Panthers, the Weather Underground or the Watergate plotters. In the jungle that has replaced civilization...