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...loss haunted each performance and lent them a funerary solemnity. Unfortunately, Chris Columbus’ cinematic adaptation of the musical is a devastating betrayal of Larson’s creative legacy, retaining none of its source material’s verve, intensity, or gravitas. Perhaps this should not shock; Colombus is the auteur behind the “Home Alone” series.Columbus never devises a satisfactory way to translate the conventions of musical theatre into the cinematic idiom: “Rent” doesn’t embrace its show-tune cheesiness in the manner of Rob Marshall?...

Author: By Bernard L. Parham, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Rent | 11/17/2005 | See Source »

...Berkes of National Public Radio (NPR); Uri Berliner of the San Diego Union-Tribune; Christine Chinlund of the Boston Globe; Philip J. Cunningham, a free-lance writer based in Tokyo; Cara DeVito of NBC news; Joe Hallinan, a national correspondent with the Newhouse News Service; Julia Keller of the Colombus Dispatch; Phillip W.D. Martin of WGBH Radio; Bryan Rich, senior international producer of Common Group Productions based in Burundi; Joe Rodriguez of the San Jose Mercury News; David Turnley of the Detroit Free Press; and David Welna...

Author: By Elizabeth S. Zuckerman, | Title: Nieman Fellows Announced for 1997-1998 | 5/9/1997 | See Source »

Speakers said they wanted to raise awareness of what they called European colonists' exploitation of non-whites which began with Colombus' "discovery" of the Americas...

Author: By Olivia F. Gentile, CONTRIBUTING REPORTER | Title: Silent Vigil Marks '500 Years of Oppression' | 10/10/1992 | See Source »

Abrams misrepresented Dr. Dorothy Blake Fardan's lecture by erroneously basing his editorial on a previously written Crimson article rather than the lecture itself. Fardan lectured on the development and modern-day functioning of white supremacy and its analogous relationship to the exploits of Christopher Colombus. Fardan mentioned the philosophy purporting Yakub as one in a series of different historical perspectives explaining the origins of humanity...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Abrams Misrepresented BSA, Fardan | 10/28/1991 | See Source »

...went around that the Italo-Suisse company planned to build a pipeline from Genoa to Switzerland, its shares zipped from $138 to $229 in a few days. Last week they worried off to $176. Last fortnight the most aggressive tipster service. I.F.A.S.. rode up the stock of Motor Colombus by 10% in a single day simply by reporting-with no fact or explanation-that it would jump sensationally. Last week the stock lost half its 10% gain, and at least one other hard-touted stock. Columbus Electronic, dropped to less than half the price at which I.F.A.S. recently recommended...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: The Other Bull Market | 6/8/1959 | See Source »

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