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Heralded again by a huge choral and orchestral extravaganza, the second annual festival of arts and culture at Harvard began yesterday. "Carmina Burana," the Carl Orff song cycle that featured the Harvard-Radcliffe Orchestra and the combined Holden Chapel choirs, had been hyped with flyers that paraphrased, "My virginity makes me frisky." Well, Frisky bodies have no end of things to do and see this weekend...
...even more notable is the premiere of Mika Kaurismaki's Amazonian adventure of a film within a film, "Tigrero: A Film That was Never Made" and Jean-Pierre Melville's 1955 cop drama, "Bob Le Flambeur." Themes which seem to be running through the selections for this year's extravaganza are the over-the-top violence of some modern film makers as well as a look at how it was done 40 years ago. Adolescents seem to form the basis of many of the film's plots (including "Je m'appelle Victor," which stars the infamously outlandish Jeanne Moreau...
What is wrong with Carousel is Carousel. The book is a mess. After a leisurely opening extravaganza, it brings together two discontented and penniless youths who quit their jobs and upend their lives to satisfy a moment of sexual curiosity. Within minutes the pair are rocketed into abiding love. Then the hyperkinetic narrative is suspended for about 20 minutes to accommodate a folksy dance number and a comic song in which the only joke is that a fisherman smells like fish. The action alternates between aimless divertissement and melodrama for an overblown three hours. At the end, the central character...
Which is, of course, exactly what the cast of the Hasty Pudding The articles does in its 146th production, "A Forum Affair." This year's high-budget, high-priced extravaganza takes us to Ancient Rome, where the fraternities hold jeans and t-shirt parties and the royal spectators at the Colosseum sit in the Caesarean section...
...electric chair in an arena dubbed the Megadome, launches a huge publicity campaign and goes about converting this most grisly of affairs into prime-time entertainment. "The doctor wants to know how close you want to be," someone asks Jessica as the camera shots are set up for the extravaganza. "Dennis' ears might start to smoke." She thinks only a moment: "Tell him to keep it wide...