Word: grecian
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...have a certain aesthetic complexity.” This stylistic complexity can contribute to a film’s overall intricacy, as in the case of “Z32,” where the weighty conversation between the Isreali solider and his girlfriend is interspersed with Mograbi singing Grecian chorus style. The director effectively confounds the gravity of his subject matter with the frivolity of song, a component that offended Palestinian audiences when it was screened in the West Bank. But whether Mograbi’s work is sympathetic to the manipulation of the Israel Defense Forces, implicitly drawing...
...band of woman determined to end the Peloponnesian War by withholding sex from their “menfolk”—into a modern discussion of sex and gender roles. In this case, “translate” was a loose term; the disgruntled Grecian housewives drive minivans with baby-on-board stickers and complain about husbands who don’t listen to their advice. The Harvard Classical Club did more than add verbal allusions to the modern housewife’s strait; the liberties they took with the original text extended to sequined dresses...
...some vivid variations and lets good actors play it big and nasty, but there's no question that the form has become formula. The real question is: at what level? Let's say somewhere between the fast glamour of Formula One racing and the cosmetic cover-up of Grecian Formula...
...Archibald was brilliant in his vanity, stealing the attention of the audience as well as the rapturous maidens. His sickly counterpart, the “fleshly” Reginald, was well cast to satirize Oscar Wilde. Yet Kimmey’s permanent grimace was distracting, as were the mock Grecian poses and the excessive facial expressions of the actors. The overacting made the satire feel forced and slightly undercut the humor of the show. At times, it seemed that the orchestra, conducted by Yuga J. Cohler ’11, was the only consistently earnest element in the entire play...
...look at a Goya drawing next to a Hokusai print and his desire to consider Maya drawings on ceramic vessels next to more familiar ancient Greek drawings. Fittingly, they are also two of the most successful pairings. The bold red Mayan ‘drawing’ offsets the Grecian slighter white figure technique. It is often the similarities in works across time and place that are most intriguing. A case in the second gallery that houses fish and flowers illustrates this strength. A floral Josef Hoffman design from roughly 1920 echoes both a Chinese vase from the eleventh-century...