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...COMIC POTENTIAL Alan Ayckbourn, a British delicacy long underappreciated in the U.S., gets treated right in this deft off-Broadway production of his London hit. Janie Dee is brilliant as a robot actor of the future, in a comedy whose laughs are more than skin deep...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Best Theater 2000 | 5/17/2001 | See Source »

...Faculty say that Garber, reputed to be a deft administrator and a trusty lieutenant to University Hall, is making VES look and run more like other departments. But some fear that this may freeze the rapidly developing program in its tracks...

Author: By Daniel K. Rosenheck, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Staff Complaints Led Knowles to Remove VES Chair | 5/16/2001 | See Source »

...minimal, and is generally established in no more than one or two minutes. With a general context for their past lives and current conditions, the film delves right into the music, leaving the studio performances as the true embodiments of emotion and personality. Eliane Elias expresses understated elegance with deft and shimmering touches of twinkling piano, contrasting with Puente's cheeky, overt showmanship as he, impish and seemingly carefree, works magic on the timbale. Trueba masterfully mixes styles and personalities; he conjures up a spread of sensations from the jarring fiery rhythms of the flamencos to the infectious, but more...

Author: By James Crawford, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Walking and Strolling Down "Calle 54" | 5/4/2001 | See Source »

...disguised by a spell that made her friends and family believe they'd known her for years. What first seemed like a clumsy way of adding someone to the cast turned out to be both a great spoof on how aging TV shows meddle with their casts and a deft exploration of identity, as Dawn - like many 14-year-olds before her - dealt with her discovery of her inner nature. Or take the starkly realistic handling of the death of Buffy and Dawn's mother, which happened suddenly and unfolded with a moving but unsentimental realism unknown to most...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How the 'Buffy' Coup Could Change TV | 4/23/2001 | See Source »

...long poem, “Time’s Fool.” Like all the readings organised by the Woodberry Poetry Room, his performance was recorded, and will join the set of recordings, beginning with Tennyson, which are stored in the Lamont library. The sonorous Oxford intonations and deft formal turns of first lyrics he read seemed to place him very nicely in this grand tradition. The slightly diffident, and much more down-to-earth, manner with which he introduced his work—“yeah, well, so that was the pitch to Hollywood?...

Author: By Hannah Sullivan, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Breaking Into the State: British Poet Glyn Maxwell Visits Houghton | 4/13/2001 | See Source »

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