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Once a controversial young troublemaker in the New York dance scene, Morris has become an icon of the dance world, working with—and celebrated by—Yo-Yo Ma ’76, George Ballanchine and Mikhail Baryshnikov. While admitting the necessity of defining dance as an art in and of itself, he defended his reputation as a dancer wholeheartedly devoted to music, by contrast to other modern choreographers who have rejected the “tyranny of music...
...relation to history is even more complicated than it seems, however. While intended as a celebration of Russian history—and perhaps, a means of mythologizing the “accident” of Communism—the Russian Ark is a slap-in-the-face to an icon of Russian film theory...
Borges capitalized on the advance press during his visit to the United States, where the normally reticent author became an accomplished speaker and literary icon...
Jennifer E. Novak ’06 lamented the loss of an icon...
...case unfolds, clues lead the pair to Zoganji, an abandoned mountain temple near the scene of the murder under investigation. This is where the film's different strands come together. In addition to evidence revealing the real killer's identity, the temple houses an icon of the fearsome Buddhist deity Acala, who "cuts away human weakness," punishing and redeeming at the same time. Fittingly, it is at Zoganji that Nango, addressing the murderer, delivers the film's message: "Dying settles nothing. Living is the only way we have to settle anything. That's how we atone...