Word: color
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Everyone should deny the value of the diversity spawned by affirmative action and trumpeted by intellectuals. It produces and artificial, superficial diversity. It demeans blacks and Hispanics by saying that the essence of their being is their skin color, that the diversity they bring is literally skin deep. It treats them as an undifferentiated and homogeneous mass, characterized by Orwellian groupthink of the sort that post-war intellectuals said would never exist and that present-day intellectuals seem all too eager to abet...
...dancers' heads adds to the surreal, Blade Runner-esque mood onstage. No-sweat-showing spandex and stretch velvet seem to be costume designer Santo Loquasto's fabrics of choice for this production--the men don shimmery silver tank tops and billowy white pants, while the women wear either two-color fluttery gowns resembling beach cover-ups, or bathing beauty-style suits and hair kercheifs. All this, added to robotical pattering about and (mostly womens' and a few mens') writhing on the floor due to various mens' pelvic gyrations, makes for an eccentric but appreciated appearence onstage...
...much as the breathtaking cinematography tells its own story, accompanied by a sonorously haunting score by Philip Glass. Kundun's slow pace may cause occasional restlessness, but never boredom. It's too much of a feast for the eyes to lose its power of fascination, and its poetry of color, perspective and motion lingers long after what's actually said is forgotten. --Lynn...
...like a box of choc--well, okay, maybe more like a bag of M&Ms. You never know what you're going to get with the Harvard-Radcliffe Orchestra's impressively diverse programs, just as the color of your M&Ms remain a mystery until they're in your hand, and both the concerts and the candy are of uniformly high quality. In fact, the exquisite ensemble of HRO might be preferable to the chocolate...
Sadly enough, the shops that provide this local color and suit the curiosity of tourists cannot fulfill the daily needs of Central Square's local residents. Through the Holmes Trust project, new nation-wide chain stores may rightfully come to answer the practical needs of Cambridge's citizens...