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...You’re making me Yarvard Hard.” Robertson opened the band’s usual improvisational song with, “Parked my car in Harvard Yard, I’d say it with an accent, but I’m not a Harvard bard.” Harvard bards or not, the Ladies certainly have a Harvard following. “They just ended up being really nice, laid back guys” said Shirley L. Hufstedler ’07, a drummer for the campus band Plan B for the Type...

Author: By Nina L. Vizcarrondo, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Barenaked Ladies Kick Off New Series | 10/2/2006 | See Source »

...like, which I don't necessarily want to consider. I might discover all sorts of horrible things about myself." On the other hand, it might provide all sorts of suitably horrible material for another novel. What fresh hell will he invent next? "I haven't decided yet," says the bard of Shepperton. "I'm waiting for the next shift in the weather. I spend a lot of time looking...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: His Dark Material | 9/28/2006 | See Source »

...ache in the places where I used to play/ And I'm crazy for love, but I'm not coming on./ I'm just paying my rent every day in the Tower of Song." Next to Cohen's castle of music, place this fetching little monument to the bard of rapturous bereavement. Release date: June...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Movies: A Hot New Crop of Docs | 6/19/2006 | See Source »

...production team of “The Playboy of the Western World” wants you to consider playwright John Millington Synge to be the Irish Shakespeare. Sure, he may have lived and written some 300 years after the Bard himself, but never mind that. According to director Aoife E. Spillane-Hinks ’06, Synge’s “Playboy” overcomes its heavy use of dialect and antiquated setting—early 20th-century Ireland—to achieve a certain universality and applicability, even for modern audiences...

Author: By Mollie K. Wright, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: "Playboy of the Western World" | 4/26/2006 | See Source »

...script moves with a relentless violence and retains Shakespeare’s eloquence, but removes the bulk that most modern theatergoers simply can’t stomach,” he says.Pecci summed up the show’s feel succinctly: “Think the Bard of Avon meets Quentin Tarantino.” RUBBISH AND REVERENCEThis recipe is likely to generate controversy as well as excitement. Any staging of Shakespeare that counts household rubbish as inspiration—“the major thematic gesture is garbage,” Lazarcheck says of this production?...

Author: By Tom C. Denison, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Reconsidering 'Richard II' | 4/26/2006 | See Source »

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