Word: focusing
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After the tragic shootings at Virginia Tech in April of last year, colleges and universities around the country responded by increasing their focus on student violence prevention programs, like Harvard’s new “Message Me” emergency alert system...
...Casting the First Ballot” explores what it means to be a voter. “We wanted to make historical conversation between past and present,” says Andres Castro Samayoa ’10, the student curator of the exhibit. The historical photographs focus on the movement’s most iconic events. In one photograph, women surround a reinforced truck holding a replica of the Liberty Bell. The bell’s clapper has been fixed, a caption explains, so that the bell (and liberty) can only ring when women can vote. Suffragists drove...
...could possibly want more than a candid of Beck’s mouth?), there are ticking clocks galore, people with white boxes over their heads, and one particularly hideous black and white minidress. To complete the head trip, lots of things spin around and zoom in and out of focus. It’s all so stylish and retro that by the end you feel it was more likely to be directed by the ghost of Andy Warhol than photographer Autumn de Wilde. This style is all part of the point, of course. What Beck seems to be saying...
...confuse “commercial” with selling out. By commercial I simply mean an album that’s well-mixed, well-edited, and heavily coated in spacious reverb. Adams has been a prolific songwriter since his days with Whiskeytown, releasing albums left and right, focusing more attention on the material than the finished product. This album may just be a turning point in his career. From the first bar of “Born Into a Light,” it’s clear that this album is different. Simultaneously poppy, catchy, country, rocking, and somehow...
...career at the age of six with an appearance on “Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood,” and he was extensively involved in community and professional theater throughout high school. Despite his numerous theatrical accomplishments, Vartikar-McCullough says, “Theater was never my focus; it was always very much visual art.” It’s this concentration on visual art that sets him apart from others in the theater community. For Vartikar-McCullough, a play goes beyond just text and characters. “There’s more to theater...