Word: centralizes
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...central strength of the Loeb production is that the play's array of visual and sound effects are strikingly presented without sacrificing the play's momentum or the characters' integrity. The technical discipline in the lighting designs of Mike DeCleene '97 and audio work of Leeore Schnairsohn '98 is remarkably rare. Consider, for example, how Kathryn Walker's recent staging of The Bacchae in the Agassiz smothered its actors in an admittedly dazzling weave of colors, echoes and choreography. Kushner's whole point, in fact, is that wonder and magic are essentially human phenomena; not wrought upon his characters...
...London poor; Felix, too, temporarily joins the ranks of London's lower classes to escape from the police and to search for Gavin, who Felix spots alive after his purported murder. Certainly Felix's short sojourn on the London streets is well-written and memorable, but it scarcely seems central enough to the book's plot to justify the title. The time Felix spends on the streets between the murder and his subsequent arrest is quite brief, and the one friendship Felix strikes up with a fellow drifter seems gratuitous, as if a mechanism for adding another death...
...gorgeous, half-successful epic gives much-needed public visibility to the tragic modern history of Tibet, but opts for glossy formulaic packaging over genuine emotional resonance, even in the central relationship between Brad Pitt's Austrian mountaineer and the young Dalai Lama. Pitt never frees us from the sensation that he's out of place--a Hollywood heart-throb trying to look spiritual and attempting a dreadful accent. The film actually becomes more dramatically compelling as Pitt's character fades in prominence, though it's amusing to watch his arrogant narcissism get deflated...
Vegetarianism, according to Watson, is the new hot topic in the course which attracts a deep interest and which seems to be a central feature of the food culture at Harvard...
...Today, I understand why. It has nothing to do with the names or the theories behind those names. It has everything to do with the concept of wrestling with truths and not rushing to definite conclusions or accepting utopian visions and partisan platforms. The concept of systematic perfection, so central to the purposes of Gov 10, Ec 10 and Social Studies 10, is a false messiah. The best that can be learned from the ideas of political or moral reasoning offered in these courses are insights, not whole worlds. The solutions to questions are not answers but further questions...