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...your coverage in yesterday's edition of Provost Jerry Green's decision to assume a distinguished new professorship designed to promote scholarship across traditional disciplinary lines. Given the tenor of your coverage, the exceptional service that Jerry has rendered to the University as Provost, I feel it important to convey my thoughts directly...
...performance art of drama; legitimately disrespected because of their artistic fluff, but persistently attempted because they are fun to perform. A little Night Music looks like fun for the chorus who ham up a good farce, but mysteriously the main singers play unconvincingly with dramatic pathos to convey the piece's darker strains. The musical struggles between glib and somber moods, the latter superfluous and unsuited to this piece, creating stylistic tension that director Carolyn Rendell never succeeds in reconciling...
Among those ends is to convey the unwelcome news that the body capitulates over time, a task for which Avedon's icy style is ideal. Seen in his deadly light, the mortification of the flesh never looked so mortifying as in his portrait of Dorothy Parker, taken after she had steeped herself for decades in martinis and her own bile. Yet put aside the thought that she was rattling herself to pieces, and the very lines of her droopy complexion are as weirdly captivating as strange tattoos. Even if Avedon never had in mind Rilke's claim that "beauty...
...Edzard does convey the tone of the play masterfully. Despite the hearty doese of romance, "As You Like It" revels in a misanthropic melancholy. The faceless, charmless interior sets of lobbies and corridors convey a barren, hollow grandeur, whole the bleak urban wasteland of rubble-strewn lots and disused machinery has an equally oppressive effect. London's grey skies and wan, pallid bussinesspeople, seckled with liverspots, contribute to the gloom...
Given that the Square's economy can't seem to support a mainstream movie theater, I've always considered it a lost cause to convey my enthusiasm about popular films...