Word: carmens
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...plays Vic Rosa, an ambitious man who is “young, Latino and good-looking,” and has money on his mind. A two-faced character, he ruthlessly defends his territory and kills anyone who gets in his way, while also tenderly looking after his girlfriend Carmen. Vic’s identity as a Latino quickly comes into play as the film draws a very defined line between the Hispanic Bronx and White Manhattan. Although the film portrays the Bronx as indelibly linked to the illegal drug trade that takes place there, Manhattan, as represented by investment...
...debris. Others are splayed on the floor with their materials spread around them, and a few are cozied up on the overstuffed couches that line two of the walls. Daniel bounds around the room in response to different students’ calls for assistance. After a silly question from Carmen Acosta, Daniel does an impromptu dance move as she answers. With Max, an eighth-grader with spiky blond hair and a mischievous grin, she is infinitely patient as he tries to wheedle his way out of reading. He gestures for Daniel to come over, and when she stands inquiringly...
Rubins admitted that the project is very daring, adding that she hopes to sell between 5,000 and 10,000 tickets. She cited the recent free performance of the opera Carmen on Boston Commons as a precedent for successful outdoor performances...
...familiar, rousing music of composer Georges Bizet. However, other audience members may have wondered if the sexual overtones of the performance, as evidenced by Carmen’s blatant seduction of Don Jose and her salacious dancing, were quite appropriate for the children present. Still, the multiracial cast of Carmen on the Common may have inspired some of the younger audience members and certainly must have broken the older audience members’ stereotypical views of opera as soley a Caucasian art form...
...Carmen in the Common. It was good. Everyone around us was pretty pissed because people kept blocking their view, and they’d been waiting for two hours. We got there five minutes before, and our view was pretty good. After that, I went home and watched The Royal Tenenbaums, half of it, with my roommate. What I saw of it was funny. That’s it, then I went...