Word: culturese
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To retrace a thousand years of Turkish culture and a civilization stretching from Central Asia to the Balkans, one need only step inside London's Royal Academy of Arts. "Turks," the institute's latest extravaganza (through April 12), draws visitors into a souk of dimly lit, treasure-filled galleries. Following...
Bridging Cultures With Humor
What is it like adapting Shakespeare for the screen rather than the stage? It frees things up. A huge bulk of text onstage is fed over to describing what's happened, what's going to happen, but the great thing about film is that you can show it and cut...
But come to America Rahman did, knowing that the country was unfamiliar not only with his name and achievements but with South Asian musical vocabulary. That didn't faze him; he'd united disparate cultures before. "When I started in '92," he told Lina, "Indian film music was very segmented...
To be sure, the explanations for the lack of female faculty are varied and we do not wish to suggest that Harvard is by any means the only institution grappling with this issue. But it would be irresponsible to ignore the male-dominated cultures that pervade some of Harvardâ?...