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...from the leading English translator of Molière’s comedies. But whereas Molière is famous for an elegant wit, Wilbur gives us only broad, limerick-like verse. This is by no means helped by the shortcomings of the production’s actors. There exist plenty of prose translations of Amphitryon; why director Darko Tresnjak didn’t opt for one of these remains a mystery. When not trying to read Wilbur’s poetry as one might read a Shell Sylverstein poem, the actors stumble through the lines as though they were...
...find the clever spots or dig them up as we contemplate what we enjoy; instead, those spots attack us, offering up all the subtlety and pleasure of a bad trombonist. If it seems like the other aspects of her work (the quirky formalism, for instance, which seems to exist merely as pretext) suffer at the hands of her ideas, perhaps this...
...inherent brand of filmmaking, which proves less suited to the constructs of the family feature. It's hardly a secret that his movies-especially the ones he writes himself-offer all the complexity of a dime-store novel. The fairly primitive characters in Desperado, after all, only really exist inasmuch is necessary to allow Rodriguez to string-together and stage his elaborate action set-pieces. It hardly matters one wink, however, because the whole movie is so intoxicated by its own style that its verve and kinetic energy become utterly infectious-each gunshot is like a jolt of adrenaline...
...prefer the word "comix" for reasons both practical and theoretical. Take this sentence: "I like comics." Even in the context of an article on comic books I can't abide the semantic confusion with comedians. More importantly, I would argue that significant differences still exist between the vast majority of titles in this art form and the few that I strive to cover in this column. But the difference no longer has to do with what the works depict. Violence and sexuality appear routinely in many books that I would not describe as "comix." The definition of the word...
...debate, titled "Theism Reconsidered: Does God Exist?" pitted Harvard Christian Unity members Richard T. Halvorson '03 and Lara M. Buchak `03 against Shankar Duraiswamy `02 and Christopher M. Kirchhoff `01 of the Harvard Secular Society...