Word: gloriousness
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...proponents are seeking. Sure, the money from reparations would help solve present-day problems like the black education gap, AIDS and the high incarceration rate among black youths--but we'll never see it. We've got too many real issues to deal with to waste resources on a glorious lost cause...
...success spoiled Mark Morris? Not even slightly. In his glorious production of Four Saints, the singers are relegated to the orchestra pit, while St. Teresa (Michelle Yard), St. Ignatius (John Heginbotham) and 12 "assorted saints" swoop, skip, strut and tango across the stage, bringing out all the fun in an opera that, since its 1934 premiere, has been embraced almost solely by devotees of the avant-garde. Skating atop Stein's nonsensical wordplay ("Once in a while and where and where around around is as sound and around"), Morris has created a heavenly playground full of beautiful saints who dance...
...Indonesia, batu in the Philippines and bingdu in China. Perhaps it's appropriate that speed is Asia's drug of choice, with an estimated 30 million users across the region. Hard work remains this part of the world's indomitable virtue. Making money and getting rich are viewed as glorious ends in themselves, no matter the means. And methamphetamine use, at first, dovetails nicely with those 16-hour days slaving on a construction site or hunched over a workstation. It is the perfect drug for those struggling to keep pace with an upwardly mobile continent...
...Gore Vidal, in his lovely essay called "Some Memories of the Glorious Bird" - actually a review of Tennessee Williams' memoirs - wrote with immense affection of 1948. He remembered the year as a golden age, best savored in Rome or New York City. Best Year tends to be the year when you were young and strong, and had just made the giddy discovery that you could commit great follies and survive them - the discovery that you were, for practical purposes and for the indefinite future, immortal...
...35mm Shorts program, which opened the festival Tuesday night at the Fenway Theater, was a typically mixed bag. Its indisputable highlight was Heart of the World, Guy Maddin’s glorious take on early Russian melodrama that won the award for Best Experimental Film from the National Society of Film Critics last month. As Maddin cuts from one shot to the next with uninterrupted speed, the film feeds the viewer a surprisingly satisfying plethora of visual information and symbolic imagery; you’d think that the quantity would smother your mind, but the film’s tried...