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...received from Queens College helped him to realize that he needed to devote his life to something that sated both his intellectual and musical appetites, he says. Although Lockwood was passionate about many periods of music history, he finished his graduate study at Princeton University with a PhD in 16th-century Italian music. “Only later did I feel the need to make a choice,” Lockwood recalls. Over time, he became fascinated by Beethoven. “I discovered the field of Beethoven study was more wide open then people had thought...
...Quinnipiac penalties in the period’s 16th minute gave the Crimson 1:40 of 5-on-3 advantage, giving Harvard the opening it needed to tie the score. When freshman Doug Rogers’ shot from the top of the zone was deflected by goalie Bud Fisher, junior Jon Pelle was able to bury the rebound, knotting the score...
...wife and two children, timed his trip to mark the 40th anniversary of a historic meeting between Archbishop Michael Ramsey and Pope Paul VI. On that first formal encounter between the heads of the two Churches since England's King Henry VIII broke with Rome in the 16th century, the Pope gave Ramsey the ring that symbolizes his papal authority. Williams was wearing that same ring in his meeting with Benedict. And these days, he might wish he had his own symbol of absolute power to wield back at home...
...tumorous brain of a monkey named Donovan (a tribute to the 1953 surgical science-fiction movie Donovan's Brain) to find a cure for the cancer that threatens the life of his novelist wife Izzy, played by Weisz. That's one story. Another is the quest of a 16th-century conquistador, Tomas, to locate the Mayan Tree of Life for his Queen Isabella; this is also the plot of Izzy's latest novel. Finally, Tom is a space traveler in the 26th century, finding the Tree, and his destiny, in a giant translucent bubble...
...Aronofsky brings every bit as much cinematic audacity to this film as he did to his first two, building elaborate visual motifs: Tree rings as a Mayan tattoo and as cloud formations; foliage that surrounds Tomas in the 16th century and grows through him in the 26th. Just as you didn?t have to be a junkie to appreciate Requiem or a member of the Kabbalah to go for Pi, you don?t have to be moved to tears by The Fountain to admire its complexity...