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...English poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge said that watching Edmund Kean, the great tragedian of the London stage 200 years ago, was like "reading Shakespeare by flashes of lightning." That's how we like our great moments in history to be, surrounded by drama, attended by heroes. By those standards, the process that led to the signing of the Treaty of Rome 50 years ago was almost ineffably mundane - a series of long meetings of forgotten bureaucrats in rooms foul with tobacco smoke. No blood was shed, few memorable speeches made; the heroes were those who could cajole a compromise into...
...Ferrell had no such qualms even though he has made lots of sports movies (Talladega Nights, Kicking & Screaming and Semi-Pro, a basketball comedy shooting in Los Angeles and set for release in 2008) and is Hollywood's active leader in self-humiliation. Is there a person in the English-speaking world who hasn't marveled at the topography of his naked torso? "I heard the premise and thought, Gosh, that could be really funny." And? "That was it. I'm not a big overthinker, and it's really worked...
...said. “Reading is already interpretation.” At Friday’s book-creation workshop, educators and program leaders from Harvard and local public schools aimed to import Barilaro and Saldarriaga’s techniques to use with their own projects. Said Natasha Labaze, an English teacher at Cambridge Ringe and Latin High School, “I’m having a wonderful time and trying to think of ways to apply it to the classroom.” Angela Richardson of the Arts Literacy Project at Brown University said of her program...
...graphic violence in order to hint at the atrocities of the war. We see it reflected in the women’s lined faces and the men’s gruffness. We hear about it in songs sung in the school bus and learnt at home—the English title of the film is a line from a song about war-torn Bosnia. The well-used pick-up line “Where have I seen you before?” gets the morbid and somewhat unexpected answer: “At postmortem identifications.” Sara...
...exhibition for a Franco-Spanish cultural class he teaches with Professor of Comparative Literature Susan R. Suleiman, “Romance Studies 171, The Spanish Civil War from Both Sides of the Border.”“Tierra y Libertad” depicts the struggles of an English Communist, David, who joins in the fight against Franco’s Fascism, only to confront the massive infighting occurring amongst the anti-Franco’s forces, the Republican anarchists, and the communists.Directed by Ken Loach, the film conveys a clear political message and agenda, falling heavily...