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Such themes fit well with the Market Theater’s mission, which involves takings risks and bringing non-traditional theater to the greater Boston area. The Market means high quality theater in our own backyard, and with special student rush tickets available an hour before the show, Harvard students should find a different kind of pre-party entertainment in the Square...
...there may be a kind of reassuring not-in-my-backyard quality to this fear - 62 percent of respondents believed their town or city would not be a target, and the percentage who have "considered" purchasing disaster-related items - a gas mask, a gun, an anthrax or smallpox vaccine - did not top the 31 percent who had considered stocking up on bottled water. Sixty percent said life in their community had returned to normal since the attacks, yet 58 percent said the country was in deep and serious trouble - the highest percentage since...
...seem impossible. Many extension school students are more present on campus than students at the college realize. At the Fly Club’s recent Calypso party, for example, Emma C. Samelson-Jones ’02 voiced her happiness when she entered the club’s backyard and realized one of her favorite friends at the extension school was playing the drums with the live salsa band commissioned for the event. And Shelby J. Braxton-Brooks ’03 can tell you that at least one extension school student appeared at the common casting audition...
...athlete, or a dancer, or a journal editor, seems itself like a lofty goal. But many extension school students are used to taking on so many roles that many of them think they can do it all. Consider Linda’s words as she stood in the backyard in the Fly, the night before she’d have to wake up early in the morning to work behind the counter at Starbucks...
Inspirations of Tanenhaus include her father, who is also a visual artist. “Dad collects mannequin legs,” says Tanenhaus. “We have a couple sticking out of the lawn in the backyard.” Tanenhaus also mentions a Dali painting with eyes on a plate, which may or may not have been formative. “It’s kind of a cheap shot,” she says. “If you have a limb where it’s not supposed to be, it’s going...