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...level of communication between performer and listener in gestures such as the encore to the Orchestral Suite hearken directly to the roots of Bach's music. While in Symphony Hall it is somewhat difficult to conceive of the intimate surroundings in which Bach's and Handel's music was originally performed, the Academy succeeded in decreasing distances and blurring the boundaries between stage and audience. In the end, both shared a euphoric experience. The Academy of St. Martin-in-the-Fields reminds one that classical music is not meant to be a stodgy highbrow event, but a form of exchange...
...feels Carey's career peaked with "Ace Ventura II: When Nature Calls." I'm not entirely sure, in fact, whom this is a film for, other than future stalkers of America. While Carey does provide just enough moronic humor to induce vomiting, his role does not hearken one's mind back to the salad days of "Dumb and Dumber." Instead, we are greeted with an eerie and disturbing tale, meant, it seems, to expose to us the dark side...
...CITIZENS OF BELFAST GATHERED in Donegall Square last week to stand in the cold wind and hearken to the words of a man making an unprecedented visit. "It's truly grand. I've never seen anything like this before," said Paul Thomas. "Everybody's come together." Indeed they had, by the tens of thousands, Protestant and Catholic, Unionist and Republican. They carried babies, waved flags and cheered with abandon when Bill Clinton, the first American President ever to visit Northern Ireland, flipped the switch that lit up a 49-ft. white pine Christmas tree, flown in from Nashville, Tennessee...
...what?"--and so far I have not been one of them. Caution was bred into me: I never played with guns or made a hobby of pharmaceuticals or flung myself off a cliff while clinging to a kite. I read books instead. I read books in which men hearken to wild imperatives, and that is enough...
Departments likely to be axed--with good reason--are the less popular women's and men's clothing, which hearken back to an era when Harvard men had to wear coats and ties to meals and Radcliffe women wore dresses, not jeans...