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...solution that we came up with, which I think works fantastically on many levels is to really embrace the Hollywood aspect of it and to show off much of it, and to allow much of [the presentation of Candide] to function as a show within a show. So much of the staging is meant to be a performance within a performance: the set of a movie, or an after-party,” explains Greenhalgh. “We deal with some of the more absurd elements of the opera by saying, ‘This is a show within...
...solution that we came up with, which I think works fantastically on many levels is to really embrace the Hollywood aspect of it and to show off much of it, and to allow much of [the presentation of Candide] to function as a show within a show. So much of the staging is meant to be a performance within a performance: the set of a movie, or an after-party,” explains Greenhalgh. “We deal with some of the more absurd elements of the opera by saying, ‘This is a show within...
Manzanita‘s ten songs Todd proves that form can indeed triumph over function, at least when it comes to female singer-songwriters. Todd has a solid album here; with better lyrics and more cross-pollination from her Plug Research peers she could eventually have a classic to her name...
...with the support of the student majority and the senior sisters—the Radcliffe term for residential tutors—the change went through. Though the bells desk was still in place, its only remaining function was symbolic. Girls would send guys straight up without buzzing. Men started openly visiting at late hours, sometimes staying the night. “Standards just fell apart,” Esterquest says, and punishments grew less severe. Other Radcliffe dorms soon followed suit...
...other hand, this entire debate is founded on certain economic and demographic predictions—low birthrates, low immigration and in particular low growth—while Bush’s plan predicts robust gains in the stock market. Normally, one expects financial markets and economies to function similarly over long periods. A sluggish economy should, over the course of 50 years, correspond to a sluggish stock market. The best explanation that anyone has mustered for this is that the rest of the world will flourish, while America lags, but there is no coherent argument for how this trend could...