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...audience deeper into the psyches of its three central characters.” Among these characters, Andrew Young served as the propelling force for the opera’s emotional intensity in his deft portrayal of the role of Jago. His rendition of “Credo in un Dio crudel” (I believe in a cruel God) illustrated a visceral contempt for justice as the rest of the world sees it. Although his superb dramatic presence never faltered, his voice was occasionally lost amid the din of the vast, 80 person orchestra. In her portrayal of Otello?...

Author: By Diego H. Nunez, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Despite Constraints, 'Otello' is Impressive | 3/9/2009 | See Source »

...cuando el gobernador de La Florida, Jeb Bush, le pidi? que fuera codirector de la campa?a de su hermano a la presidencia. El presidente nombr? a Mart?nez secretario de Vivienda y entonces, para facilitar su propia victoria en La Florida en las elecciones del 2000, le dio empuje como candidato al senado brind?ndole, entre otras cosas, un discurso en el pleno de la Convenci?n Nacional Republicana. A veces Mart?nez tiene desacuerdos con la Casa Blanca, pero todav?a tiene m?s palanca dentro de la Oficina Oval que cualquier otro pol?tico hispano en la historia...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Mel Martinez | 8/15/2005 | See Source »

...round holes with a variety of substances and glued objects - including thick paint, glitter, colored stones and sand - to draw the viewer's eyes in a controlled swirl of fanciful symmetry while almost surreptitiously adding third and fourth dimensions. His large, egg-shaped works from the La Fine di Dio (The End of God) series of 1963-64, where a uniform surface is entirely pocked with deep gashes, could just as well be considered sculpture as painting. By the time Fontana died in 1968, the initial snickering (particularly from the New York art world) that his work was gimmicky...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Slash of Genius | 11/24/2002 | See Source »

...second-floor café often escapes the less Yard-savvy café patron, but when horrid images of Spanish A creep back from alcohol-induced selective amnesia its location crystallizes in the cerebral fog. “Yo hablo bueno español, por que tu me dio una C?” The menu at Boylston is not as cultured as its patrons, who hail from such departments as literature and classics, though it does offer sushi for $5 and lasagna for the same. The red booth benches are absurdly comfortable and quick to conform to the rear...

Author: By Samuel A.S. Clark, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: C'est Not So Bon | 4/25/2002 | See Source »

...World in Eighty Days," Welles sheepishly or puckishly describes himself as "one of the least punctual of mortals ... who can?t read time tables, wind watches or get out of bed.") In "Theatre of the Imagination," an engrossing radio tribute on the 50th anniversary of the Mercury ra-dio program, Richard Wilson says he can?t remember a Mercury play that opened on schedule. "Radio was the only medium that imposed a discipline that Orson would recognize," Wilson says. "And that was the clock. When it came time for ?The Mercury? to go on the air, there was no denying...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: That Old Feeling: Mercury, God of Radio | 8/27/2001 | See Source »

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