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...would be confident and comfortable." Abe was just that. After his meetings with Roh, he announced sanctions against the North that were both swift and stern, declaring: "We cannot in any way tolerate the development and manufacturing of nuclear weapons. The government of Japan shall immediately embark on harsh measures...
...characters’ lives with those of the audience, Ur’s unusual set configuration also suggests the characters’ distorted senses of their own experiences and history.Thomas E. Osborne ’08 keeps the lighting simple but elegant, shifting efficiently from warm yellow hues to harsh white spotlights. Sound designer Jennifer J. Malin ’09 continues the simplistic theme of “Bette and Boo” with a minimalist musical score. Although the transitions into the music seem abrupt at times, the mournful and plaintive themes do a brilliant job of capturing...
Anna was a great asset to Russia’s dwindling public sphere. Even her friends say she was not easy to bear, but harsh critics hardly are. Born in New York to Soviet diplomats from Ukraine, she decided to study in the motherland, graduating as a journalist from Moscow State University in 1980. Almost immediately, she focused on the disfranchised: the old, the poor, and refugees. She once declared she aimed at “reviving Russia’s pre-revolutionary tradition of writing about our social problems...
McCormick's talent lies in rendering stark facts vividly but not melodramatically. Just as Sold's brothel, Happiness House, smells of "spices and cooking oil, perfume and cigarette smoke," her novel has several scents, some lovely, some harsh. Having had success with self-mutilation and prostitution, she's taking on a less physical anguish in her next novel. It's about a 15-year-old girl whose brother is killed in Iraq. Awards committees, take note...
...harsh lights of a theatre under construction, with saws and staple-guns buzzing in the background and sawdust covering the floor, Ur seemed fully at home. “We’re building a forced-perspective stage,” he says enthusiastically of the set, gesturing to a geometrically confusing structure rising behind...