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Griffith offers a romantic—though rabidly racist—vision of what it means to be an American; against this backdrop, Miller’s alternative of “panhumanism” is only vaguely defined...
...Spooky,” channeled lightning with a laptop before a sold-out crowd in Sanders Theatre Friday night. He edited Griffith’s silent epic—live—interspersing dance clips from choreographer Bill T. Jones, projecting the remixed footage onto a massive triptych backdrop, and all the while turning tables to produce a tuneful blues base...
Cruikshank, a former editor of the Harvard Business Review, chose the top-ranked institution for the backdrop of his story because “it is a setting in which many different walks of life bump around together...
...creativity of the visual effects complemented the rest of the show. A projector splashed various pictures onto a backdrop of the stage, adding a unique and sometimes ironic touch (such irony was truly exemplified when a picture of Senator Joseph McCarthy was flashed during one scene). The choreography was similarly imaginative and especially noteworthy in one scene in which Cunegonde was tied to six sheer ribbons. Throughout the work, the combination of bright lights, ladies carried on the shoulders of men, and the large chorus strongly drew on the Moulin Rouge aesthetic...
...announcement, say Egyptian political analysts, follows months of growing outspokenness from Egypt's political opposition and within civil society to allow others to run against Mubarak. It also comes against a backdrop of growing pressure from the U.S. for political reform and democratization in Egypt. Indeed, the announcement followed hard on the heels of a decision by Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice to cancel a trip to Egypt, reportedly in response to the arrest last month of parliamentary opposition leader Ayman Nour - who had been pressing for the right of Egyptians to run for president when Mubarak seeks a fifth...