Word: reenactment
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...Harvey Cox, who recently retired as the Hollis Professor of Divinity, the oldest endowed chair in America, decided to exercise the traditional grazing rights that originally came with that position. As I watched Professor Cox and the Jersey cow named Faith reenact this venerable, and now slightly amusing, tradition from a window in University Hall, it seemed that he had provided the perfect metaphor for the purpose of the endowment...
...Hardy Men.” But Stiller added that the planning for the movie is still in its early stages, and he is still waiting to read the script.Stiller, who was dubbed an “international superstar” by Pudding members, also had to reenact a scene from the movie “Braveheart,” rallying the troops to fight. The catch, however, was that he had to speak in the voice of a neurotic man—a part quite familiar to Stiller given his role in the movies “Meet the Parents?...
...their lovably old-fashioned teacher, struck me as a sentimental, highfalutin' version of Welcome Back, Kotter. Only in this case, the teacher (the dismayingly rotund Richard Griffiths) also likes to diddle the boys' privates when he gives them rides home on his motorcycle, and the classroom cut-ups reenact entire scenes from Dark Victory and know all the words to Bewitched, Bothered and Bewildered. Oh, please. The play's central conflict, and claim to seriousness, lies in the rivalry between the old teacher and a hotshot newcomer who cracks the whip to prepare the boys for their exams...
...Greengrass explains the emotional difficulty, yet spiritual necessity, of making a film about an event so painful for so many. He points to the fact that that the many people who made the film possible, “would not have come together in front of the camera to reenact what they did and interact with a group of unknown actors if they didn’t feel, as I know they do, that it was a necessary, though very painful, and ultimately inspiring, to look again at this event.” The Harvard Crimson: Why did you choose...
...recruiters and exempt the military from its nondiscrimination policy.According to Paik, the task force will develop possible responses to the Rumsfeld v. FAIR decision, expected sometime next year.“If the decision comes out in favor of FAIR, we hope [the University] will take immediate action to reenact its nondiscrimination policy,” Paik said, adding that University administrators “really need to start thinking now about what sorts of actions that they need to take in the future.”Paik said the committee will also recommend methods of increasing support...