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...everyone was crazy about the Crash win. During the acceptance speech, musical director Bill Conti seemed to be indicating the vexation of a minority in the room when he brought up the orchestra volume before Haggis could say his piece. (This year, the orchestra played softly through each of the spoken thank-you speeches, making the winners? comments sound like song cues in an old musical.) But Haggis had been on stage earlier, as a Screenplay winner. Besides, his victory was unique, at least to lovers of Oscar trivia. He became the first person to have written two consecutive Best...
Awkward Landing, a local hip-hop trio that includes Harvard student DJ Shiftee (Sam M. Zornow ’08), brought out a surprisingly large conti ngent to the show, and their loyal fans and pumping their fists and singing along in the middle of the floor. The group took to the stage explosively, playing amped-up versions of songs off of their debut album “What’s Eating Awkward Landing...
...most convinced antis are James Beck, head of the department of art history at Columbia University; Alexander Eliot, a former art critic of TIME; and Alessandro Conti, a Florentine historian of restoration technique who published a book on the issue. Eliot makes the ridiculous claim that "nearly half of the Sistine ceiling has already been reduced to postcard quality." Beck sees the cleaning as a "dangerous step, taken without real knowledge or adequate cultural background." Eliot compares the cleaning to the shuttle disaster; Beck, to Chernobyl...
...This is a major accomplishment for The Crimson and especially the design board,” Conti said yesterday...
...first time that we won two design awards in one year,” Conti added. “I think that is a testament to how well we have implemented the color redesign in less than a year. We’ve raised the bar and set a great example for guards in the years ahead to follow...