Word: alissa
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...crispness, energy, and attitude. Expertly laid out, the piece made excellent use of the floor space with constantly changing configurations, showing off the dancers’ skills with long sequences of impeccably-executed arm movements.“From Jamaica with Love,” choreographed by Alissa C. Cooperman ’10 and Mark A. Terrelonge ’10, featured a lot of hair twirling, floor-work, and sensuously twisting body movements, as well as the unmistakable dance move known as the “Dutty Wind.” The piece combined elements...
...dramatically too. When Reid accepted the P&G job, she uprooted her doctor husband from Richmond, Va., along with their two young children. The couple eventually divorced. Ruxin's move forced his new wife (the trailing spouse, in human resources--speak) to make a career change of her own. Alissa, 32, once managed wellness programs for Goldman Sachs; today she is about to open a swanky caf in Rwanda's capital. In his reporting on the "true stories of people who turned their obsessions into professions," Josh Piven, author of The Escape Artists, to be published this spring, found that...
...08—a familiar face in Harvard theater who just finished a star performance in the Ex’s “Dinner”—does an admirable rendition of Astaire’s voice with his mellow opening number. Lead dancers Alissa C. Clarke ’07 and Kevin Shee ’10 fill the shoes of Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers with confidence and poise...
...latest example of that is the enormous coverage of parents who are crazily obsessed with giving their children a head start. By middle school, the kids are world weary and anxiety ridden. Those domineering parents are the subject of books such as Alissa Quart's Hothouse Kids, Alexandra Robbins' The Overachievers and Madeline Levine's The Price of Privilege. Or last year's media sensation, Judith Warner's Perfect Madness, about mothers on the brink of insanity as they seek to create perfect childhoods for their tots. The affluence of those parents is never copped to; instead, these fears enter...
...latest example of this is the enormity of coverage on parents who are crazily obsessed with giving their children a head start. By middle school the kids are world-weary and anxiety-ridden. These domineering parents are the subject of books such as Alissa Quart's Hothouse Kids, Alexandra Robbins' The Overachievers and Madeline Levine's The Price of Privilege. Or last year's media sensation, Judith Warner's Perfect Madness, about mothers on the brink of insanity as they seek to create perfect childhoods for their tots. The affluence of these parents is never copped to; yet once these...