Word: artistes
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...audience is thrust forward in time to 1985, where a middle-aged couple is enjoying the view from their hotel balcony in San Juan. This next skit, "A View from the Roof," revolves around Betty, an emotionally frustrated Jewish wife who is duped by a suave Puerto Rican artist. The third skit, entitled "My Mother's Luck," is essentially a long monologue spoken by a Jewish mother to her daughter Hannah, who is preparing to live with her wealthy father in pre-WWII Germany...
Cody Nickell demonstrates a wonderful versatility in his roles as both the lingeringly pubescent Daniel and the cleverly seductive artist Mauricio. Anne Bates, her mannerisms faintly resembling those of Claire Danes, is charming in her portrayal of Hannah, and is particularly vibrant in the emotionally charged final scene, "The Bridge of Sighs...
After 30 seconds, "the thing" moves into "drinking artist," in which Fuck quickly and gracefully throws off the weight of the connotation and begins the album again in a very different vein. A single guitar picks out a tranquil, wandering melody, allowing listeners a few seconds to absorb the shock of the transition before Prodhumme (sounding very much like The Flaming Lips on a particularly sober day) enters with an endearing, wavering voice to ask what it really means to be an artist: "You concentrate/get strait/calculate/what it takes to be an artist...
...people around us diminishes so does our exposure to new ideas and perspectives. It becomes more and more unlikely that a talented friend will introduce us to the world of poetry or drastically change our view of the world through the study of art, unless we are already an artist or a poet in our own right...
...lapse in our education through classes also fails. Most would agree that the Core does a lousy job of exposing us to a variety of subject areas. Trying to take departmental courses is also a failed proposition. Try to take an introductory VES class without being a reasonably good artist or an introductory drama class without previous acting experience. The number of talented artists and actors in an average college class will likely diminish one's chances of success in such courses (not to mention making it difficult to get into such a class in the first place). At Harvard...