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...year, shortly before her 60th birthday. Her friend and collaborator, Robert Strozier, waited even longer; he's 65. It's not that they didn't have the creative chops for the job. The two have spent their careers writing and editing in New York City, and Crook has a background in performing, singing and piano. But creating a musical always felt just out of reach--until...
...favor of HUPD this morning on the ground that Harvard is a "private educational institution," and that, although HUPD has the power to arrest and carries out public functions on behalf of the state, it is not an "agency" subject to the public record laws. To provide some background on the case, in June 2003, The Crimson, citing public records law (G.L.c. 66, §10), requested all police records "including but not limited to incident reports" from the Boston and Cambridge Police Departments as well as HUPD. Both the Cambridge and Boston police departments complied, providing us with documents, including...
...Nick of the classic “Thin Man” films, and The Wolf (Patrick Warburton), actually a misunderstood investigative reporter, is a carbon copy of Chevy Chase in “Fletch,” complete with hoodie, Lakers jersey, and 80’s background techno. The music sequences are also hysterically overdone, particularly one in which the Woodsman (James Belushi) yodels in praise of the Schnitzel Stand he operates while being chased by a pack of hungry, lederhosen-clad children. Of course, everything is ruined right after the song, when the woodsman breaks out the phrase...
...Many actors are deeply insecure as a result of a troubled childhood, and they often draw on their painful background to intensify their performances. But, says Marion Solomon, a therapist based in Los Angeles, they run the risk of getting trapped in their pain, fearing that if they escape their past they will lose their creative spark. Solomon's clients often say their feelings are too painful to reveal. "I say, 'Feel those feelings, experience them with me, be aware of where you feel them in your body, and we can dive into them and then come out and find...
...order for us to get a bigger grasp of how they play in with each other,” Martha A. Tesfalul ’09 says.Vanessa Vargas ’09 also praises the course’s efforts to look out for students with less science background, but says the course lacks focus at times. “Especially at the beginning of the course, we would have readings from the beginning of the book, and then for the next day, from...chapter 27. There isn’t a fluidity throughout the course,” Vargas...