Word: brilliante
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...attendance is not exactly high this day. (Students present will later defend their absent classmates, citing the fact that reading period has already begun and final papers will soon be due.) His microphoned voice echoing over the empty hall, Petric delivers what some will later say is his most brilliant and successful lecture of the term: an excoriating blast of the Arts at Harvard, Harvard students, commercial cinema, and even of human existence. (Petric: I was sitting up in bed the other night when I began to laugh. My wife asked, "Why are you laughing?" "Because life is so absurdly...
...communication." Petric stresses that film artistry is the result of using visual and aural cinematic devices to convey thematic elements. A film may be intelligently written and acted, he says, but it does not qualify as a work of cinematic art unless all components are integrated. Likewise, a technically brilliant film cannot be cinematic art unless all the devices are used in support of the content and ideas...
Described as "a serious Billie Burke" by one of her friends, Author Truman Capote, Bunny is a woman of great, if somewhat eccentric style and a brilliant landscapist. At the request of another friend, Jacqueline Kennedy, Bunny redesigned the White House gardens; her own gardens in Virginia look like an impressionist painting...
...together after last Wednesday's performance to say goodbye: "It is now or never. I have to work with Mr. B." For A.B.T. Baryshnikov's leap to Balanchine is a profound loss; "Misha" was their inspiration as well as their star, who embodied the best that the brilliant but erratic troupe could achieve...
Stenhouse continued his banner weekend by turning in a brilliant game before his home state crowd, swatting home runs in his first two at-bats en route to a five-for-five...