Word: eckert
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...Though he constantly looks like he has just been punched in the face, Hartnett tries his darnedest to be a serious actor and acquits himself decently. Johansson merely manages to look sexy in 40’s outfits and accomplishes nothing in her role. Eckert is predictably volatile and under utilized. Swank is just bizarre...
...April 23, is a triumph. Told in words, music, writing, song, projected images, and one climactic, devastating silence, the operatic play is hugely ambitious and completely unique. It is, however, more interesting than it is entertaining, at times overreaching to the point of inaccessibility. Written by and starring Rinde Eckert, “Orpheus X,” an American Repertory world premiere, updates the well-known myth of Orpheus (Eckert), a musician so gifted he could move mountains with his song, who descends to Hades to rescue his recently-killed wife Eurydice. He convinces Persephone, wife of Hades...
President Bush had jokingly promised a Washington audience that he wouldn?t wear a Speedo bathing suit during his summit in Cancun, but he was spotted in shorts and a T-shirt after a lunchtime workout at his seaside hotel. He gave White House stenographer Ellen Eckert a hearty, sweaty hug. He was clearly enjoying the break between two of his least favorite activities - sightseeing and chaotic international conclaves. Bush, changing the black Cadillac limousine that had picked him up at the Cancun airport for a hearty black Suburban with the Presidential seal on the side, had spent his Thursday...
...Eckert questions the binding’s authenticity. “I think even this is somewhat doubtful as [the book] doesn’t greatly resemble others I’ve seen in the past,” he adds...
...Eckert, the Countway librarian, speculates that Countway’s acquisition may have had that purpose. The accession information of Countway’s Ovid, acquired in 1989, “mentions the binding, so I suspect it was known, and this was probably the reason for the purchase,” Eckert explains in an e-mail...