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According to Balliett, the problem does not rest exclusively on the shoulders of the disinterested audience??classical musicians who resist modernization should share the blame. Traditionalists have stigmatized modern orchestral music, he says, leaving only a limited canon of work that classical groups can choose from...
...short, scary prologue depicting the gruesome murders begins the movie, followed by several scenes introducing the main characters—mother, stepfather, belligerent older son, adorable younger son, and vaguely creepy young daughter—while establishing that they are good people who deserve the audience??s sympathy...
...characters, and the dull pacing of the narrative itself—unable to create real suspense surrounding even the most extreme of scenarios—conspire to sink Saturday like a lead balloon. It is perhaps no wonder then that McEwan was testy at his reading, snapping at the audience??s admittedly fatuous questions and reading a lengthy segment spanning each of the novel’s ill-fitting strands as if in defiance. Everybody fails at times, and McEwan has a phenomenal talent which here pokes through all too rarely. To ignore his failure here...
Cabot Professor of Social Ethics Mahzarin R. Banaji first performed an “implicit attitudes” test—which tests the unconscious associations people make—on the entire audience. She explained that the audience??s comparative difficulty in associating scientific words with female names reflected an unconscious bias that associated males with science...
...adaptation of Witold Gombrowicz’s novel Possessed, the play did an excellent job of bringing a series of eccentric characters to the stage and even held the audience??s attention through parallel plotlines that wrapped up cleanly, if tragically...