Word: curiouser
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...this month a show of contemporary art interrupts the rhythmic silence of art history. Like the curious summer visitor, a current exhibition of works by graduate students at the Boston Museum School appears out of place. Without the approval bestowed by time, they are foreigners. Boldly, they ask the viewer to look. They call for attention...
...Laurence Olivier, whose Henry V is the one Shakespearean role in which he is indisputably supreme. Carious does not quite have all the voice needed for the "Once more unto the breach" harangue, as magnificent a military pep-talk as anyone has ever trumpeted forth. What is curious is that the British soldiers vigorously hurl balls at the toy cardboard-and-paper castle and have to interrupt the attack to listen to Henry's oratory. Kahn's direction here undercuts the need for any spur to action...
...shell out a few of my parents' hard-earned dollars and join Students for a Democratic Society, then a relatively recent addition to Dean Watson's mailing list. I was soon taken in hand by a mostachioed radical several years my elder, with whom I spent a curious, concentrated week canvassing the freshman dormitories for political talent. We weren't too successful, if the truth be known, finding most of my classmates had their minds on P.T. credits and Gen Ed Ahf and the girl next door in Nat Sci 5 lab. Harvard seemed to be a pretty shrewd head...
...have grossed $11 million in ten years, the profits, he claims, have been incidental. "My turn-on," he says, "is making movies that entertain me." Unfortunately, like those other pioneers, Kinsey and Masters, Meyer may live to see himself trampled in the sexual revolution. "I am worried about Am Curious (Yellow)," admits Meyer (46-38-42). "That film has put me at a crossroad. I have never shown genitalia in any of my films. Once you have to show that to get people into the theater, how many people are going to do it with taste? I have always been...
...shell out a few my parents' hard-earned dollars and join Students for a Democratic Society, then a relatively recent addition to Dean Watson's mailing list. I was soon taken in hand by a moustachioed radical several years my elder, with whom I spent a curious, concentrated week canvassing the freshman dormitories for political talent. We weren't too successful, if the truth be known, finding most of my classmates had their minds on P.T. credits and Gen Ed Ahf and the girl next door in Nat Sci 5 lab. Harvard seemed to be a pretty shrewd head, always...