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...FIERY, 14-minute live performance on The Ed Sullivan Show in 1961, banjo-playing singer-songwriter Tommy Makem, with his bandmates the Clancy Brothers, had catapulted Irish folk music into the mainstream. By infusing tunes like Four Green Fields and Gentle Annie with a raw, modern energy, the charismatic baritone became one of the biggest stars of the '60s folk revival. Among his fans: Bob Dylan, John Hammond and John F. Kennedy, who in 1963 asked the group to play at the White House. Makem was 74 and had cancer...
Talented as the cast may be, however, a musical’s success depends wholeheartedly on a skillful and dependable band. With Ben E. Green ’06 at the piano and Catherine E. Powell ’08 at the violin, “I Love You” was a complete success. They provided the backdrop against which the actors could shine...
...clicking through a movie projector at 24 frames per second seem like one continuous moving image. Antonioni, true to his creed, won't say - unless we are to take Blowup's last shot as the answer to this larger question. Thomas is seen from a distance alone on a green field. And then he disappears, as Anna had in L'Avventura. This is the anticonjuror's dogma: not seeing is believing...
...Mustang are called. Yes, I saw two huge satellite dishes in the town of Tsarang and listened to the Eagles’ “Hotel California” while sitting in a traditional kitchen sipping milk tea. But I also watched farmers transform the desert to vivid green with centuries-old techniques and implements, saw Buddhist temples almost unchanged by time, and witnessed a sunset from a roof built hundreds of years ago. I walked for days without seeing a motorized vehicle, calling out to monks as they rode by on horseback with their red robes streaming behind...
...transform the Loba’s lives in infinite positive and negative ways. I am frightened that the road may destroy what makes the area incomparable to any other. But I am selfishly happy to have seen the windswept canyons, the brilliant red Buddhist temples, the fields of impossible green in the midst of barren browns, and the beautiful, friendly faces of the Loba before a road transforms them into a mere glimpse captured through the window of a car along a highway...