Word: enlivenment
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...would be brash enough to host a Bernie Madoff Appreciation Dinner? The members of Friday Night Lights, a group founded by Tobias S. Stein ’11 to enliven the celebration of Judaism, did just that...
...Lowdown: St. John's narrative is laced with intimate portraits and fresh figures - did you know the resale value of a stadium's worth of tickets exceeds $500 million, or that Americans consume eight million pounds of guacamole on game day? - that enliven the organizational challenge of carrying off the world's biggest bash without a hitch. The choice to ignore the superstars on the field in favor of the game's unsung laborers is a refreshing angle, even if he seems half-ready to douse them in Gatorade. Readers' reactions will likely hinge on whether they consider the Super...
...Andersson, two former members of Abba, the musical often features an off-key score to lend the songs a foreboding tone. This score does little to compensate for the musical’s flimsy plot. Although the sinister score may give atmosphere to the setting, it does little to enliven the scenes of the musical...
...Kaminski and write the artist’s definitive biography. But he soon gets sidetracked from this task, finding himself on a road trip with the painter to the city. While this rare chance to spend some intimate time with Kaminski may have seemed like the perfect opportunity to enliven his book with personal anecdotes, Zollner realizes through this experience that to try to contain the artist’s life in a commercial biography would only trivialize this man’s actual experiences. Kaminski’s early career is the stuff that iconic stories are made...
...woven into the action that you almost hate to single them out. There are anthem-like chorus numbers and vaudeville throwbacks, political drinking songs ("Merry Christmas, Maggie Thatcher") and those with simple, John Lennon-like lyricism. But all of them seem utterly fresh and inseparable from the story they enliven and enhance. The show's centerpiece, of course, is Billy's dancing, which ranges from tap numbers to classical ballet, as well as a striking Act I finale in which Billy, his chance at an audition thwarted, erupts into an emotional, free-form paroxysm of frustration and anger. But Peter...