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...medley of West Side Story tunes composed the second number of the evening. "Pas de Quartre" was a hard act to follow, and the dancers of "West Side Story" seemed a little awkward and over-dramatic in their attempts to match the beautiful first number. The Harvard Pops Orchestra, accompanying the dancers throughout the first act of the program under the musical direction of Allen Feinstein, seemed under-rehearsed and ill-prepared for Bernstein's score, leaving the dancers to cover the distracting and annoying amounts of musical blunders in the orchestra. Unfortunately, the overdramatic choreography didn't do much...
...Despite my appreciation, I don t know what to do about the awkward ambiguities feminism left for me and a couple other billion women: what to do if I m not the perfect feminist? So if you know, let me know. I ll be vacuuming or plucking my brows...
Sometimes all it takes is an awkward moment to highlight a continuing problem. At Tuesday's Women's Leadership Awards dinner, one of the speakers thanked Harvard College and Radcliffe College for their support of the Women's Leadership Project (WLP), a sponsor of the event. She looked out over the dais and nodded to her right at the Harvard officials seated at one table. She then nodded to her left where Radcliffe President Linda S. Wilson sat on the other side of the room. It was a graceful way to handle a difficult situation, but the physical and verbal...
Which makes it a bit more awkward for DreamWorks to spin the news that Spielberg and his two top executives, the married couple of Walter Parkes and Laurie MacDonald, are balking at taking on the expanded film production that DreamWorks feels its live-action studio needs in order to thrive. DreamWorks, which released six films in 1998, wants at least to double that output. But Spielberg and his partners will restrict themselves to overseeing no more than half a dozen films a year. Spielberg also will revive his previously dormant production-company banner, Amblin, for some films. His financial stake...
...Slowly the promised funds for that project evanesced. But the seductive stylized drawings and paintings of her work, plus the fact that she was a female architect of consistent vision, backbone and--as a made-for-media bonus--booming voice, frank views and flamboyant wardrobe, put her in the awkward position of having fame and headlines aplenty but buildings...