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...spawned a generation of jitter-bugging, tango-lovin’ dancers during the Depression. The Murrays built a successful franchise of teaching studios and later brought ballroom to the masses through television, erasing the class signifiers that had accompanied certain dance steps. At the beginning of their program, immediately following a live advertisement for Newports, Alkaseltzer, or the like, my grandmother would glide onto the stage—SNL style—perform a short monologue and encourage her audience: “Add a little fun in your life: try dancing.” I have a sneaking suspicion...
...Iweala’s most important inspirations for the novel was China Keitetsi, a child soldier from Uganda who addressed the Harvard African Students Association during Iweala’s junior year, he said. He tried to work on the story in Nigeria the following summer, but he said he found that he needed distance from the country in order to write about it. “Beasts of No Nation” is set in an unnamed African country, but Iweala said he used details of culture, language, and landscape drawn from Nigeria. In order to write the story...
...Sony)3/5 Stars“Are you there God? Soy yo, Margaret…er, I mean Shakira.” The Latin diva’s latest album, “Oral Fixation, Volume II,” the English-language follow-up to 2001’s crossover smash, “Dirty Laundry,” addresses all the prepubescent questions of the Judy Blume novel: the Lord, boys, and female self-image. Shakira, however, is a grown woman and should have deeper thoughts than those...
...hint as to what will be expected of students who join it. According to the blurb, “Students interested in focusing on Environmental Studies should consult with the Director of Undergraduate Studies to construct a Plan of Study reflecting these interests.” Students who follow the handbook’s advice will likely be redirected once more. Paul Stopforth, the VES Director of Undergraduate Studies, recommends that prospective Environmental Studies applicants seek out Professor Stilgoe’s services as an adviser: “Professor Stilgoe, for all intents and purposes, is the only...
...really like an extracurricular, because you spend so much time at the studio together.”The lights flicker off and a square of light pops up on a screen at the end of the table. Images appear and start moving across the screen. The 10-minute film follows a pregnant woman—the sister of one of the student filmmakers, Roberto C. Patino ’06—through her everyday life. She first appears on the screen, doing laundry and making breakfast. Later, the camera skims over a variety of inanimate objects in her life...