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With pieces ranging from the thought-provoking, to the entertaining, to the downright bizarre, the Green Street Studio’s contemporary dance production of “Avec Nous” was an intense experiment—the dancers performed to poetry rather than music. But although it presented an interesting premise, the Central Square show was not uniformly successful and at times evoked feelings of discomfort with its raw emotional content and powerful subject matter...
...vibrant and relevant today. Harvard students, living in a relatively atheistic—or, at best, agnostic—community, the questions raised in the book about the nature and need of faith reverberate strongly. And aside from the philosophical scintillation the book provides, it’s just downright entertaining...
...Grey's Anatomy is far removed from the suburban dysfunction of Weeds or the deadly intrigues of Damages, but it demonstrated that there was a vast audience for a show about a fleshed-out heroine who sleeps with a married man, makes bad and selfish choices and can be downright unlikable...
...Catholic Church has never been a model of candor or transparency. Compare it to the Chinese government, however, and the Vatican can start to look downright forthcoming. In what may be Rome's strongest public push to normalize relations with China, Pope Benedict XVI has sent a 55-page open letter to Chinese Catholics that essentially lays all the Vatican's diplomatic cards on the table. The initial response from Beijing, meanwhile, has been terse and predictably cryptic...
Everyone has heard it before. From parents, relatives, maybe an older sibling: “College will be the best four years of your life.” Although always uttered with a note of pleasant nostalgia, it’s downright depressing for all of us about to graduate. Are we cruising downhill for the next 60 or 70 years...