Word: effort
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Holiday Show and Sale" sparkles with an energy and with that will surprise anyone familiar with VES exhibitions. In an effort to make students more involved in the exhibition process, professors asked them to submit works on paper priced for less than $100 (later, sculpture was also admitted). Then a Faculty jury pared down submissions, making the exhibition far less cluttered and more potent than usual. Even for diehard Carpenter Center voyeurs, the show comes almost as a revelation: yes, VES students are learning how to draw and sculpt, but more importantly, they have something...
Despite Spielberg's efforts, however, certain techniques he uses seem to undermine his paradigm that the African is always right. On the boat, after the mutiny, the Africans speak their native language to each other without translation, while the Spaniards they kept alive to help steer the boat are provided with subtitles--a conspicuous effort to lend a sense of foreignness to the Spaniards and a universality to the endeavors of the Africans. The fact remains, though, that the audience does not understand what the Africans say, so while the Spanish dialogue has some import, that of the Africans...
Although junior guard Mike Beam has been hitting three-pointers with consistency, Harvard will need a better effort from its role players and bench, which contributed zero points against the Terriers...
...players and the staff add up, in the end, to one thoroughly satisfying show. Theater-goers should in fairness be warned that this uncut version of The Mikado runs close to three hours, longer than some people are willing to sit still. But those who don't make the effort will regret it; and those who do will find that, with rare exceptions, every moment of the show is worth it. In the hands of these skillful performers, The Mikado comes up as funny as it was a century ago, and looking rosier than ever
There are two major flaws that mar James' effort. First, there is the fact that Aldridge is such an unsympathetic character. She rants and raves, lies and deludes--we feel absolutely no remorse when she is killed. The ensuing investigation is satisfying only because of its many plot twists; finding justice for Aldridge's death seems the least important priority...