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...recognition and success in tough auditions. “I mean, she’s just totally independent and focused and charismatic and just someone that a normal person can really empathize with.”Kargman has been a performer since her youth, and her ability to build complex characters springs from both her self-described “wild imagination” and her determined, artistic drive. She approached Harvard fresh from four years on the competitive forensics team at Milton Academy, where she was able to spend a year getting to know the characters she portrayed. When...
...Over the next 10 years, BC will invest $700 million in its new Brighton campus, which will feature an integrated science complex designed to facilitate research spanning multiple fields, as well as facilities for the fine arts, a university center, a recreation complex, and housing for 610 undergraduate students currently living off-campus...
...other throughout the album. Although the result is not always pure beauty (the low-fi, grating instrumental opening of the track “In the Morning” is a bit headache-inducing), one can’t resist jumping up and dancing. The melodies are not particularly complex, but drummer Chris Ellul and bassist Spencer Page have a solid feel for the blues beat. The Heavy draws liberally from tradition, and they have the musical chops, soul, and energy to pull it off. They poke fun at their own contemporary music scene with tracks like...
...greater to emphasize their empathies.” Docx’s skill for characterization is most clear in his slowly unfolding portrait of the father of the Glover family. The captivating Nicholas Glover is an ever-mounting pile of sometimes contradictory traits that Docx effortlessly weaves into a complex and wonderful character. At times utterly heartless, at times dedicated and loving, Nicholas is always arrestingly bright and completely human. He is cruel to his children—their memories of him inevitably include insults and beatings—and abandons his wife. Yet Nicholas also has a much softer...
...show lacks big issues; over three seasons of ”Battlestar,” the writers have introduced topics ranging from an Iraq-like occupation to electoral fraud to the ethics of a preemptive strike. None of these issues, however, come about without the decisions of complex characters. And that’s what sets “Battlestar” apart from other series. As people, we consume entertainment not just out of boredom or a need to keep up with the Joneses, but because of a love of characters. We’re fascinated by other people...