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...watch. Balanchine’s choreography made its second, less successful appearance of the evening in an excerpt from “Apollo.” Despite the best efforts of the dancers, especially Kevin Shee ’10, the piece failed to hit home. The light music conveyed none of the majesty the Sun God normally evokes, and although Shee did his best with Balanchine’s choreography and Watts’s staging, his Apollo seemed more like a drunken Zeus after a rough-and-tumble night with Hera. “Lamentation?...
...which contemporaries would have viewed them, portraying Jesus as something of a socialist. Gomes doesn’t write in a vacuum, however, and he includes numerous mentions of current socio-political situations—the war in Iraq, Sept. 11, homophobia, and race relations—to convey how Jesus’s teachings apply to the modern world.Yet where Gomes’s book falls short is not in the message it presents, but in the way it presents it. Gomes is good about writing accessibly, but for those with more biblical knowledge, the book...
...prejudice in our world is so extreme that we have to convey the simple fact that not all Muslims are extremists,” Cran said...
...convey this message, Dines did a bit of bombarding herself, presenting a slideshow chock-full of the most vulgar kinds of pornographic images and spitting the word “fuck” several dozen times (this was, no doubt, to show she was no prude). A major theme of the evening: Pornography has invaded our culture to such an extent that even a woman’s behavior is altered by it. Porn causes a woman to feel immense pressure to conform to an unattainable standard of beauty and sex appeal. Dines blames everything from hard-core pornography...
...problem, says Huang Jing, a Senior Fellow in Foreign Policy Studies at the Brookings Institute in Washington D.C., is that China's Foreign Ministry has relatively little power and largely acts as a messenger to convey policies crafted at higher levels, such as the military. "Everyone seems to think that Yang Jiechi is China's Condi Rice," says Huang, "but he's actually quite low on the totem pole compared with a senior general, to whom he would have to bow and be deferential." Of course, many bureaucracies suffer from communications problems, blurred lines of authority and plain old dumb...