Word: humanity
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Fusing the genres of introspective drama and explosive action calls for a delicate balance, but director Neill Blomkamp’s protagonist in “District 9”—who becomes a human-alien hybrid—reflects the success of such half-breeds. After being assigned to assist in relocating 2 million alien refugees from their city slum to a distant concentration camp, Wikus van de Merwe (the impressive Sharlto Copley) is forced to help the aliens escape the planet. With the same seemingly magnetic pull of District 9—the aforementioned slum...
...French Chef,” and read her book. She made haute cuisine accessible, encouraging women to deviate beyond Jell-O molds and to risk failure in order to achieve culinary—and personal—triumphs. Child is earnest and fearless, but also human; we see her emotional suffering after failing to conceive with her husband Paul (Stanley Tucci). The two share a passionate relationship, and the viewer inevitably falls in love with the 6’2” powerhouse as well as her understanding partner. Powell, however, does not inspire her online readers; instead she feeds...
...find some rationale for featuring these works under this heading. Sprawling landscapes and faces from across the world are hardly anything innovative in the photographic world. Instead, the depth of the exhibition comes from the implicit connection between the prints and Steiner’s professional work with human rights activism. The photographs aren’t the stock shots of the starving and desolate women and children one might expect from the founder of Harvard Law School Human Rights Program; but instead they offer a subtler look at the beauty and diversity of the earth’s landscapes...
...make sure it wasn’t missed.There is another piece I originally choreographed to recorded music but I’ve always wanted to do it live because I’ve been enamored of the classical guitar for a while. There’s a very human element to having live music that I think gives a dance piece something more when you have the musician present. I’m a really musically- driven choreographer, so I’m trying to do everything I can to make the music in the concert represented as important, because...
...Joan Didion and Denis Johnson. Johnson proclaims Gardener’s influence on his work in an article for Salon.com, “I got the book and read about two Stockton, California boxers who live far outside the boxing myth and deep in the sorrow and beauty of human life, a book so precisely written and giving such value to its words that I felt I could almost read it with my fingers, like Braille.” He readily acknowledges the novel’s influence on his own first novel, “Angels...