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...Jewels” run. One of Boston’s most beloved dancers, she is regularly invited to guest internationally, and as a homecoming of sorts, participated in SAB’s 75th anniversary gala performance with the New York City Ballet (NYCB) several weeks ago, an experience she calls the “highlight” of her year. She recently sat down with The Harvard Crimson to tell us more about her career as a ballerina. The Harvard Crimson (THC): Tell me about your transition from Japan to New York, before Boston.Misa Kuranaga (MK): It was a little...
...fests like those featured on “CSI.” Violence has become the stuff of the banal, and yet retains its mystic and exotic appeal. Valentin Groebner, one of Germany’s up-and-coming historians, takes a look at this phenomenon, grounding it centuries ago in the visual culture of the Middle Ages. Groebner’s claim provides the basis for “Defaced,” where he attempts to link today’s media-led fascination with horror and graphic depictions of mutilated bodies to the torture and religious martyrdom...
...sale of its 6,000 piece collection. But at Berklee, art more than thrives; it ventures into uncharted grounds, boldly pioneering an unconventional form—the video game. Students and faculty at Berklee have been sharply attuned to the success of the video game industry. Two years ago, the push began for a new school-wide curriculum that includes composition of video game music. The school has hired more faculty for this purpose and is also working to develop a degree program specific to the genre. “A few of the students at Berklee formed this group...
...Daredevil,’ and it feels that you’re in a Dashiell Hammett novel,” Davis says. “In general the best comics nowadays are much better written than the comics written 20 or 30 years ago. The boundaries have changed.”Affirming this notion, Kern has integrated graphic novels into the curriculum of Japanese Literature 123: “Manga.” “I think that graphic novels, comics, manga, are a mode of expression, just the way the novel is a mode of expression...
...politician himself, like so many other Japanese leaders (including that other maverick, Koizumi) he entered the Diet when he was just 27. Michael Green, chairman of Japan research at the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington, who knew Ozawa more than 20 years ago, remembers him back then as a traditional politician "focused on bringing home the bacon" to his constituency in Iwate prefecture in northeastern Honshu. His mentors include both Kakuei Tanaka, Prime Minister from 1972 to 1974, who treated Ozawa like a son and arranged his marriage, and Shin Kanemaru, who served as Deputy Prime Minister...