Word: cellistic
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...defenses against every stereotype from trailer trash to Muslim racial profiling in the same sentence that they call student-athletes “idiotic” and label them “dumb jocks.” There is also the fact that the Harvard athlete, like the Harvard cellist or the Harvard poet, contributes to rounding out the student body and protects Harvard from being populated entirely by people who spend their afternoons in the library...
...Billed as “a romantic comedy as Kafkaesque nightmare,” this ambitious black comedy about naughty thirtysomethings toes the line between film and animation. One disloyal kiss throws the lives of jaded urban couples into chaos, sending them headlong into unlikely liaisons with a seductive cellist, a cinephile stewardess and a dominatrix bowling alley attendant (Marisa Tomei). While rookie director Fisher Stevens’ conception of Kafka seems to center on angsty witticisms, indie rock and lots of skinny people wearing black, the film’s imaginative play promises plenty of eye candy...
...narrow Beijing alleyway. Onscreen, Jiang's toughness is best when it's paired with vulnerability. In the role that made him famous across China, as a fresh-off-the-boat newlywed in the 1993 TV series A Beijing Man in New York, Jiang played an out-of-work cellist who battles bitchy bosses, sticky-fingered factory managers and an immigrant's ennui. In Zhang Yimou's Red Sorghum, he makes passionate love to Gong Li in a breezy patch of matted sorghum stalks, then gets drunk and boisterously brags about it. When Gong Li slams a door on him, Jiang...
Several of last night’s performers had gone on from Harvard to become professional musicians, including producer and singer R. Sterling Beckwith ’52 and Boston Pops cellist Joan B. Esch...
...lesser tunes allotted to the cello, played with gusto by Antonio Meneses. Meanwhile, Pressler, a shrunken old man seemingly twice the age of his fellow players, continually reared his head from side to side to check on the progress of the strings, despite the fact that neither violinist nor cellist seemed to pay any attention to his paternal well-wishing...