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Tango is striking example of how a film can grasp an audience's attention with very little definitive action. A good sized portion of the film consists of dance numbers, in which Storaro takes advantage of the studio setting to use shadow, silhouette, distorted mirrors and moody lighting gels to create a dreamlike, often unrealistic effect. In the empty studio, Mario plays out his romantic fantasies and nightmares, always leaving a tinge of uncertainty as to what is real and what is imagined. Into this world Mario draws the other characters, helplessly entangled as their emotions become prey...
Catch the young and exciting men's Lacrosse team in their first home game of the year against Hobart. After being having a playoff berth snatched from their grasp by the NCAA selection committee last year, the team is eager to prove its skeptics wrong and join the ranks of the nation's elite ASAP. Against Hobart, Saturday, 1 p.m., Ohiri Field...
About an hour into the festival, we moved into a second viewing room, also showing shorts. The BUFF programmer, Bernard Broginart, welcomed everyone to "this wonderful hoax of a film festival" with a smile. While I didn't really grasp the intricacies of Bite My Bohonkus, a postmodern nightmare involving a chicken-woman, a mini tank-vehicle from the future and a diva with a four foot behind, I did thoroughly enjoy A Waiter Tomorrow. Two servers in a mediocre sushi restaurant deal with the mounting stress of their disrespectful guests by diving from the kitchen with a pistol...
True, the technical points of the readings for chamber music are not difficult for me to grasp, but the theoretical and analytical part of the course forces my mind to combine what I know about music with the analytical skills that I've hopefully picked up at this point in my Harvard career. A course such as this is not an "easy way out," but is rather a course that helps me to understand a side of music that I previously did not notice...
...True, the technical points of the readings for chamber music are not difficult for me to grasp, but the theoretical and analytical part of the course forces my mind to combine what I know about music with the analytical skills that I've hopefully picked up at this point in my Harvard career. A course such as this is not an "easy way out," but is rather a course that helps me to understand a side of music that I previously did not notice...