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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...curtain rises, audience members in the front section of the orchestra seats are immersed in pale blue light while characters race up the aisle before mounting the stage. Amidst the ensuing Christmas party and magic show, Dr. Drosselmeyer (Lazlo Bardo), the eccentric godfather of Clara, dominates the first scene. If his distinctive air and cute magic tricks fail to dazzle, then his huge velvet cape undoubtedly will. Whether twirling or flying off after Clara and her prince to the Enchanted Forest, this cape has a life of its own. The other most prominent character is, of course, Clara (Janine Ronayne...

Author: By Adriana Martinez, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: 34 Times and Still a Good Nut to Crack: The Nutcracker review | 12/10/1999 | See Source »

...beginning of the second act. "As long as I wasn't woozy or anything, I had to keep going. I owed it to the audience and the company to carry on," he says. Weil stayed for another 30 minutes, which included the show-stopping, spangled finale. After the final curtain call and standing ovation, the assistant director rushed Weil, still in full costume and stage makeup, to University Health Services, where doctors washed away his foundation and blush to clean the "Y-shaped laceration" above his left eyebrow. Because of the nature of the injury, they then had to send...

Author: By V.c. Hallett, | Title: Fifteen Minutes: And the Show Goes On... | 12/9/1999 | See Source »

...Hanging Pooh head pillows, Hanging Tigger head pillow, Pooh trash can, Pooh tissue box, 4 Pooh clocks, Pooh hamper, 5 Pooh picture frames, 2 Pooh Piggy Banks, A Few Pooh Magnets, Figures of all the Pooh characters, Tons of dolls of all the Pooh characters, A Pooh shower curtain (for the closet), Pooh dishware and flatware, Pooh Christmas lights (though not exactly for Christmas), Pooh towel, Pooh night light, Disney globe (w/Pooh characters on it), Pooh calendar, Pooh desk set w/stapler, paper clip holder, note card holder, and other stuff (coming soon), Pooh stationery (coming soon...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Fifteen Minutes: As Follows: Don't Pooh Pooh | 12/9/1999 | See Source »

...words of Kenny Loggins, entering the bedroom of Mike S. Ovadia '03 takes you "back to the days of Christopher Robin and Pooh." Ovadia's laundry bag, four clocks, welcome mat, trash can, decorative Kleenex cover, night light, shower curtain, dishware, flatware and towel are all inspired by Winnie the Pooh, making his room a miniature Hundred Acre Woods. Even an Eeyore sticker decorates the cap of his lava lamp. To get to his bed, he wades through waves of stuffed animals that include the more obscure Pooh characters like Kanga and the Heffalumps. "I think I relate...

Author: By Nina O. Yuen, | Title: Fifteen Minutes: Go Make Waterfalls: Fantasy Worlds Within the Confines of Harvard's Dorms | 12/9/1999 | See Source »

...Balthus is the biography of the mysterious subject, "a painter of whom nothing is known." These figures are always attractive to biographers, who feel that they get to reveal the figure behind the curtain. Balthus was an enigmatic contemporary artist most noted for his highly sexualized portraits of young girls. His paintings, which often featured sadomasochistic imagery, were deemed so scandalous during their debut in 1934 that one was removed from its public display in Paris...

Author: By Erik Beach, | Title: Biography: What Is It? | 12/3/1999 | See Source »

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