Word: approaches
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...this haphazard approach to plot development, the storyline often hinders the progress of the novel instead of providing it with the structure that the book requires. The reader often wonders when characters, presented in detail early in the novel, will return in significant roles. Many of these characters reappear only briefly in largely inadequate attempts to end their presence in the story. Thus, the reader is left hanging in anticipation of a more satisfying conclusion...
Umabatha, the current revival of the 1970 play by South African playwright/director Welcome Msomi, is such a remarkable amalgam of widely different cultures, goals and modes of performance that it's difficult to know how to approach an assessment of it. Enacted entirely in Zulu by performers in traditional Zulu attire, Umabatha* is at once a history lesson, a dance-and-music spectacular, a celebration of Zulu culture and--last and, theoretically, most important--a reworking of Shakespeare's famous tragedy Macbeth...
Early Saturday morning, I stumble out of bed and head off toward Memorial Hall. And as I approach the Yard, it strikes me how easy a time Harvard has in transforming itself to resemble a tiny police state. Lock a few gates, throw together some police stations in prominent areas and presto...
...hopes of gaining access to Littauer--a building in the exact opposite direction from the site of the speech. The woman objects, but the cop's not caving. Once you put the police in charge, it seems, there's no room left for a sensible, case-by-case approach to these kinds of situations: the rules are the rules, and that's that...
...playful entertainment--an intricate mix of bare rhythms, verbal acrobatics and sharp humor. As rap's agenda grew more urgent--the thundering political nationalism of Public Enemy, the corrosive social critiques of gangsta rappers like N.W.A.--LL continued to build his career on the genre's original foundations. The approach worked. Since his first record, I Need A Beat, appeared in 1984, five of his subsequent seven albums have gone platinum...