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...strangely out of tune with the Pope’s sentiment. American preachers seldom mention animal rights, except as evidence of the excesses of secular radicalism. National polls show an inverse correlation between church attendance and support for animal rights. Churches celebrate the blessing of the animals on the feast day of Saint Francis of Assisi, and then largely ignore animal ethics for the rest of the year...
...Steele says. “Modern luxury is an aura of excellence.” In the 18th century, these porcelain centerpieces often depicted miniature versions of the gardens they were frequently surrounded by or portrayed the court jesters and dancers who had just entertained the guests before the feast. Dance was an integral part of aristocratic society, and often the Baroque festivals featured private theatrical entertainment including dancing or a ball before the actual meal. Thus, the dance and music performance held in the Fogg Courtyard was incorporated to give modern day viewers a taste of this 18th-century...
...something entirely different had happened. At the moment when Frederick had begun to feel his anger transform into something like ambivalence or even happiness, an image had flashed through his mind. Despite the visual feast which lay before him–the flickering light, the bejeweled tortoise on Felicity’s dressing table, the nude voluptuousness of his wife–it was a vision of that stable boy, shirtless, standing knee deep in a lake, playing a violin, which had appeared before him. It was this image above anything else which had brought him to the brink...
Sarah Kane’s “Blasted” has been called a “disgusting feast of filth,” and justifiably so. The “multi-sensorial nightmare” of rape, cannibalism, war, and suicide is currently in its premiere New England run at the Loeb Mainstage until April 12. The Roving Reporter stopped by to talk with the cast and director about their fun-filled performance.Catrin M. Lloyd-Bollard ’08RR: What’s your role in the production?CLB: I’m directing it.RR: Why?...
...course feast is being touted as a "once-in-a-lifetime inspirational dinner." On April 5, Bangkok's five-star Lebua hotel will treat 50 favored guests to a repast prepared by a glittering array of Michelin-starred chefs. To thank the guests for their loyalty to the hotel, Lebua plans to spend $300,000 for the meal. Accustomed though they may be to showy p.r. stunts, social activists are nonetheless up in arms over this particular act of epic extravagance. The reason? The banquet comes with a pre-dinner commitment to what the Lebua's p.r. mavens have dubbed...