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...It’s Oh So Quiet.” This time the title aptly reflected the content of the dance—the first 30 seconds of the two minute piece the choreographer/soloist spent sitting still and rigid on a chair. Like the blank canvas which is art because it is the absence of art, this piece was dance in the absence of dance for the bulk of its duration. The momentum came out in a few spurts, unreflective of the music, and subsided into stillness again...

Author: By Julie S. Greenberg, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Review: Original Choreography Fuels ‘Collaborations’ | 4/19/2004 | See Source »

...turned some important heads. U.S. Ambassador to Australia J. Thomas Schieffer responded by attending a Liberal Party fundraising event, an unprecedented political gesture on the part of a foreign diplomat. In so doing, Schieffer essentially signaled his approval of the party that has given the Bush administration a verbal blank check for the War on Terror...

Author: By Bede A. Moore, | Title: The Little Guy in Australia | 4/16/2004 | See Source »

...lyrics at all; in the dozens of times I replayed that song each night I never once gave thought to what it was actually about. More immediate to me was its lilting verses and soothing chorus, the mediocrity of Alanis’ voice made perfectly blank by Glen Ballard’s job on the mixing boards. Her voice didn’t seem to communicate anything internal—essentially it was a well-oiled vehicle for the homogenous but undeniably comforting harmonies that make radio rock what...

Author: By Ryan J. Kuo, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: The Music is the Message | 4/16/2004 | See Source »

...Harold Gray [the original creator of "Little Orphan Annie"] was a big visual influence on the book, including blank eyeballs, de-emphasized emotional reactions the overall size of the figures. I initially started out drawing Riel with a big head and a smaller body then by the end of the book I was drawing him with a big body and a small head with massive hands. That's very much the way Gray drew his heroic figures. That's what the basic size of Daddy Warbucks was. That was why I had to re-draw the early scenes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Keeping It 'Riel' | 4/12/2004 | See Source »

...came quickly. Two months after I met Mohammed, the Israeli newspaper Ma'ariv printed a deck of cards showing 34 Hamas leaders targeted for assassination. Mohammed, his face a blank silhouette, was the jack of spades, No. 9 on the list. Two days later, an Israeli Apache helicopter gunship located Mohammed's walkie-talkie as he sat in a car about 100 yards from where I had met him. "It was his one hobby, to swim," Mohammed's brother later told me. "His fate was to die by the sea." The helicopter launched at least three Hellfire missiles...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Middle East: Inside Hamas | 4/5/2004 | See Source »

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