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...high school, she worked as a professional dancer in countless venues: in cabarets, on Broadway, and even in a traveling circus.In an unlikely turn of events, Mallardi’s reputation for visceral, inventive, and unabashedly artistic dance caught the attention of Radcliffe, an institution whose wealthy and straight-laced reputation seemed inimical to Mallardi’s style, in 1965. She says her initial reaction, when asked to interview for the position of dance instructor, was, “They won’t even understand my English!”In a way, the statement is not hyperbole...
...Haller is not “bad” but rather, “complicated”: he makes one client’s mother bleed her retirement fund, but he also hires a former felon as a driver, giving the young man a chance to go straight. Haller is an intriguing character and easily one of the finest Connelly has ever constructed...
...currently at the Sackler Museum, reminded me of the surprise I got when I heard one of my friends, who plays guitar in a punk band, playing Mozart on a violin. It wasn’t that the delicate strains of the violin concerto were completely unrelated to the straight-up, snarling chords of his punk songs, nor even that one was necessarily better than the other. It was just that, man, I didn’t know he could do that...
...Crimson has now won 18 straight against BU, but the slim margin was a far cry from the recent history between the two teams. After outscoring them 82-0 in their previous nine meetings, Harvard needed overtime to get past the pesky Terriers last night, heralding a new era for women’s hockey in the city...
...another first-Monday-in-February victory. “I thought we were ready for this,” said Crimson captain Peter Hafner. “I thought we were confident going in.” But the numbers are cruel, really. There are the 12 straight first-round wins for Boston University—and 22 out of the last 23, if you keep counting—but there are also eight straight first-round losses for Harvard, so often the Beanpot’s whipping boy. The Crimson (12-9-2, 9-7-1 ECAC) hasn?...