Word: circuitous
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...dreamed of being the next Roberto Benigni? The Newport International Film Festival may be able to help you get started. Having already debuted last year to rave reviews, the organizers of the program are gearing up for another successful year to establish themselves on the famous Newport Festival circuit. Taking place in the first week of June, the Festival boasts 4 United States and 3 World Premieres, in addition to countless other international features, documentaries and short films. The Harvard Crimson caught up with Programming Director Maude Chopin, Executive Director Christine Schomer and Festival Director Nancy Donahoe to ask them...
...fellowship was established in 1990 in honor of Irving R. Kaufman, a former judge on the U.S. Second Circuit Court of Appeals...
...fellowship was established in 1990 in honor of Irving R. Kaufman, a former judge on the U.S. Second Circuit Court of Appeals...
...challenge was marketing the film to general audiences who had preconceived notions of poetry performance. Whether it was his journalistic experience or the power of slam itself. SlamNation converted enough skeptical viewers (Devlin cries, "Ninety minutes of poetry? I'd rather shoot myself!") to jump from the film festival circuit to national release. Devlin's film was one of two released about slam in 1998. He reports that the 1999 National Poetry Slam in Chicago this August expects "essentially double the audience that was in Austin last year...
Next he needed to convince other kids. He wrote entertaining spots for Littlewood's closed-circuit TV program (his slogan: "We love the 3 Rs: reduce, recycle, reuse!"), but at first many students resisted--and threw banana peels and other unsuitable garbage into his recycling bins. "One kid even got sick in one of them," Will recalls. Soon his buddies started to get the message, and the school's Girl Scout, Cub Scout and Boy Scout troops joined in, helping him recycle hundreds of pounds of cans that netted more than $100 for Littlewood's Head Start preschool program...