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...dance, song, and music.Though the performance got off to a shaky start, narrative and performers alike found their ground as the first half of the show progressed. Overall, “Métamorphoses” proved to be accessible and entertaining, an impressive feat for such difficult subject matter...
...true subject of all these movies is the innocence of the obsessional ego, the ability of people caught in the grips of an idea they think is grand (and everyone else thinks is stupid) to drive everything else out of their heads as they pursue their goofy dreams. Mainly they do this without raising their voices, without pitching fits, without showing the slightest evidence that they are lacking in what the rest of us are pleased to call normalcy. Take Harry Shearer's Victor Allan Miller. He's played Shakespeare (albeit in repertory's more obscure regions), but his fame...
...such disparate works may initially seem to belie the show’s profession of a unified theme, viewers should eventually find a method to the madness. Even in the seemingly chaotic first gallery, the installation of the exhibit encourages comparison, pairing items alternately by theme, method, and subject: two posters about AIDS take different tacks alongside one another in one room, while two interpretations of the American flag hang in another, and two very disparate cartoons share a wall. Both of the cartoons demonstrate different interpretations of the medium. Picasso’s “Dream...
...Tuesday’s meeting offered faculty the first chance to discuss the committee’s preliminary report in a public setting. The report calls for the replacement of the Core Curriculum—and its emphasis on approaches to knowledge—with a program focused on subject matter. Over a dozen professors spoke—some endorsed the proposal, while others rose to criticize its rationale and the five broad areas of inquiry it would create. Bass Professor of English and American Literature and Language Louis Menand, the other co-chair of the general education committee, characterized...
...negotiate the Rome Treaty that founded the International Criminal Court and who drafted the German law under which Rumsfeld has been charged. Under German law, the decision over whether to try the case will rest with the federal prosecutor rather than with a judge. Federal prosecutors, of course, are subject to the wishes of the government, and the government is unlikely to press a case that would antagonize its American allies. "In theory the prosecutor could find him guilty of torture and put him in custody if he visited," says Zimmermann. "But in reality nothing is going to happen...