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...book can capture a lot of things that a film can't, but what a film can capture is the men themselves and their personalities and how their personalities interact with their ideas. That's why this is great for film--they're amazing talkers and they express themselves, and they're thinking through things even as they're talking...
...this campus, at least those who are heterosexual, may pretend to be outraged for fear of alienating the real women in their lives, but will secretly rejoice at the boon to their fantasy arsenal. I've already made my reservations at Hooters. Female students, meanwhile, will likely express mild disgust, with militant "womyn" taking to the barricades...
...stars of the evening, Mahler, Ozawa, and Quivar, were not equally matched on Friday. Though Quivar sang the German words of the fourth movement very beautifully and powerfully, and with the skill one expects of a diva, she didn't have the means to express her performance as passionately as the members of the orchestra. They moved with all of their might to make sounds that impressed the audience, yet she, singing in between their music, remained almost motionless during her performance. This stiffness was directly contrasted if not highlighted by Ozawa's spirited conducting not a foot away from...
Although the main focus of the course is listening to music, Goldberg says it also aims to help students bring out "What's there," to express through performance the evocative qualities that are inherent in the music...
...triumphs were transformed into something greater--into one of alienation and anger. As Ann Powers put it in a Feb. 1 article in The New York Times, "Arena rockers gave their male working-class fans a way to believe in themselves when others degraded them; today's alternative rockers express the doubts of young middle-class men about the power they inherit...