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Today scientists manufacture buckyballs by the pound and in a variety of sizes and shapes, from flat sheets to long filaments. Some can hold atoms of other elements in their hollow interiors; others can conduct electricity. Given the versatility of buckyballs, scientists predict that they will someday be used for, among other things, drug-delivery systems, superfine electrical wires and hairlike tubes of unprecedented tensile strength...
Netanyahu's slogan of Peace with Security rings hollow. His actions have demonstrated that he lacks both the vision for peace and the will to attain it. --Ramy M. Tadros '97, President, Harvard/Radcliffe Society of Arab Students --Mohamad M. Al-Ississ '00, Member, Harvard/Radcliffe Society of Arab Students
...strangely appropriate that the show's title is slightly different from the title of Eliot's poem, "The Hollow Men"; this show is Eliot, distinctly skewed. The words of "The Hollow Men" are only the starting point for "The Hollowmen," a loud, extravagant, psychedelic play that feels very much like a live music video...
...when the music and action have almost nothing to do with the text's mood and meaning? It quickly becomes clear that the spirit of "The Hollowmen" is based on a shallow, but understandable, misinterpretation of the poem, whose repetition of certain apocalyptic words and images--"broken," "death," "dream," "hollow"--can make it seem merely psychedelic, the precursor of Jim Morrison's lyrics...
...Hollowmen" doesn't have the sophistication, or the rewards, of "The Hollow Men." For that matter, it doesn't offer the conventional pleasures of a play, or the concision and fluidity of a music video. What it does provide is live spectacle, tremendous technical accomplishment, and a trippy atmosphere. Which isn't bad for 45 minutes, and the first week of school...