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...Harvard women and men’s fencing teams began what looks to be one of its most promising seasons yet this weekend. At the Garret Penn State Open, the Crimson participated in its first tournament of the year and had a successful debut. “This event is primarily for the freshman and sophomores, to give them a taste of what college fencing is all about and kick off some nervous butterflies they have,” Harvard coach Peter Brand said. “They have more than proven themselves.” With many new faces...
...play with tragic universality. The capable cast includes John Lithgow as Joe, Dianne Wiest as his wife, and Patrick Wilson as his adoring, deluded son. But the reason crowds are rushing to see All My Sons is the fourth member of the ensemble: Katie Holmes, making her Broadway debut as the daughter of Joe's disgraced business partner. Mrs. Cruise holds her own quite well. She's got stage presence, a voice that fills the theater, and if her line readings can seem a little strident, they are perfectly in tune with the haunting modernist symphony that McBurney has created...
Thirty-two years ago, the photographer William Eggleston leaped from obscurity to notoriety with an art-world debut that the New York Times called "the most hated show of the year." It was a fancy dive from the most visible platform there could be, the Museum of Modern Art in New York City. "William Eggleston's Guide," it was called, as though he were taking you on a tour, but one prone to dwell on the sketchiest roadside attractions. In a photo by Eggleston there might be a sunbeam that sweetly anoints a full dish rack on a white sink...
...experimentation, but experimentation in spite of form. The parameters and the expectations have become more apparent, but a sense of purpose or identity is startlingly absent.Few albums illustrate this dichotomy, or more precisely, the transitional turmoil that leads to it, more obviously than Deerhunter’s full-length debut, 2007’s “Cryptograms.” That album interchanged relatively light pop songs with long, carefully orchestrated instrumental passages, all covered in a fog of ambient fuzz. The term “ambient” has long slipped out of any useful connotation?...
Japan was nearly 30 years ahead of us, as usual.Yasutaka Tsutsui’s quirky and entertaining “Salmonella Men on Planet Porno,” a collection of short stories written in 1979, is just now making its debut in the United States, but the stories capitalize on the same theme—the bizarre nature of systemized society—that the contemporary television series “The Office” exploits today. Tsutsui shrewdly reveals the hairline stresses, lusts, and insanities that no society can ever completely wall in.But while Tsutsui?...