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...like the dodo has died again,” Peter F. Hedman ’10 said on a recent visit to the museum, after being told the bird was a fake.Harvard’s dodo inherits an enigmatic legacy, shrouded in centuries of bloody intrigue: from the bird??s extinction in the 1640s to an 18th-century bonfire that nearly burned the world’s last specimen to ashes. Not to mention a man who may have killed to inherit the stuffed bird, the one which would eventually inspire Harvard’s fake.A WORLDLY...
Branagh’s adventurous direction is similarly frustrating at times. Ranging from a detached bird??s-eye-view of the action to surveillance camera footage, his style is inconsistent and choppy; viewers will find it difficult to focus. He doesn’t have much of an excuse—this is hardly Branagh’s first foray into directing. His credits include “Hamlet” and “Much Ado About Nothing,” both well-received by critics. But in “Sleuth,” his attempts...
...question I’d been dying to ask: when have Celtics tickets been in such high demand?He was a grizzled working-class guy, worried about having dashed from work to “grab tickets and head back.” His response? Larry Bird??s rookie year—1980.Bird was drafted as a junior in 1978 and returned to Indiana State for one more year, but his being taken as No. 1 pick by the Celtics was enough to revive fans accustomed to the annual championships brought home by Boston stars Bill Russell...
...opus. It may be an equally difficult task to top that album, even for its brilliant creator.Despite the evolution Bird demonstrates in his latest, “Armchair Apocrypha,” the album is just not as captivating as its immediate predecessor. Listening to Bird??s subtle stylings and soaring, intellectual, rustic chamber pop, it seems impossible that he could have ever been a part of the ultra-swinging Squirrel Nut Zippers. He has transformed from floor-stomping fiddler into a mega-orchestral artist for the ages. Yet some aspects of “Armchair Apocrypha?...
...LP’s titular war. As a result, the album’s third song, “Human Punching Bag,” sounds vacuous, like a half-hearted attempt to recall the quiet beauty of “I’ll Be Yr Bird?? on 2005’s “Transistor Radio.” Another boisterous cover, this time of country crooner Jimmie Dale Gilmore’s “Headed for a Fall,” closes the album. While it’s fun to hear Ward belt...