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...work that HCC is doing. They give us a huge gift, and I’m here to give back by supporting them,” said Maria S. Kulsick, an adoptive parent and third-year participant in the Dumplings program. Academy Award-winning filmmaker Thomas Lennon showed an excerpt from his 2006 Oscar winning documentary “The Blood of Yingzhou District” at the dinner. The film, co-produced by Ruby Yang of the Chang Ai Media project, depicts the ostracism faced by children orphaned by the AIDS epidemic in rural China. HCC intends to donate...
...modern dance. It is an art whose realization demands nothing less than the seamless fusion of creative construction, flawless technical execution, and flashes of spontaneity in performance. The Boston Conservatory Dance Theater’s fall production, which featured Conservatory upperclassmen in three world premieres as well as an excerpt from Martha Graham’s classic “Chronicle,” masterfully communicated a lasting artistic message this past Friday. “Braid,” the absorbing brainchild of Conservatory faculty member Daniel McCusker, opened the night. The curtain parted to reveal a dimly...
...Mason University's Richard Norton Smith, Yale University's Beverly Gage, and Russell Riley and David Coleman of the Miller Center of Public Affairs at the University of Virginia--to discuss presidential temperament: what it is, who had it and how much it matters in the White House. An excerpt of their conversation...
...Fundamentally rooted in improvisation, it is largely up to the interpreter to set the mood of the dance. Lam was both desperately somber and charmingly lighthearted, and his unmatchable plasticity gave way to extraordinarily sketched patterns in the air.One of the fireworks came early, in the form of an excerpt from the “Rubies” section of George Balanchine’s full-length plotless ballet “Jewels.” Considered the crown of Balanchine’s jazzy, bold, American-inspired works, it fits its Stravinsky score like a glove. Misa Kuranaga absolutely...
...really great writing." The winner of the July grand prize, as well as of category prizes in both July and October, was a letter carrier from Portland, Ore., named Murr Brewster, whose folksy commentary on low-rise jeans and other fashion trends won in "Style+Beauty+Body." (An excerpt: "rolling cumulonimbus mounds of flesh were thundering out of pants all over town. Everywhere I looked, girls were celebrating physiques of the sort that once ignited the muumuu industry.") The announcement of her October win coincided with her retirement from her post-office job. "This has been a very good week...