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...seven works, opening the show with “Patriot Act UP,” a dance that demands both a credible acting performance and impressive technical precision. Hook explains that “Patriot Act UP,” set to traditional American songs by Morton Gould and John Philip Sousa, was intended to be a political commentary questioning the package of patriotism. Cochran communicated the playful satire by producing props from her costume such as a lollipop, a toy flag, and a noisemaker as the tune suddenly changed patriotic music to gunshots at the end of the piece...
...week after its anticlimactic finish, it’s now clear that the first presidential debate was not dominated, as instant-polling results and exuberant liberal pundits have since indicated, by Barack Obama. It was also not, as his preemptive Wall Street Journal advertisement declared, a landslide for John McCain. In fact, the clear stars of the debate-that-nearly-wasn’t were not running for the presidency at all. They were speech coaches, makeup artists, and, for the first time, man-bracelet manufacturers. Like all political theatre, that night belonged to the costumers, to the stage crew...
What game show involves a series of polls, John O’Hurley, and a team of five Harvard students? Survey says Family Feud. A team of Harvard undergraduates has been selected to compete on the show’s college edition, which will air in mid-November. On Oct. 17, the team, composed of Alexander B. Cohn ’10, Michael T. Henderson ’11, Tana Jambaldorj ’11, Nicholas A. Noyer ’09 and Michelle M. Parilo ’10, will fly to Los Angeles to tape up to three...
...What really matters is what you like, not what you are like,” John Cusack says in “High Fidelity.” This advice could be the mantra of the new movie “Nick and Norah’s Infinite Playlist,” in which the two eponymous star-crossed lovers are united by their worship of indie music—in particular the fictional group Where’s Fluffy. But for all its pretensions to understanding indie music fans, the movie comes across as contrived and unemotional. Nick, played...
...process of researching her uncle’s art and history, Robinson discovered that the Factory was plagued with a “sense of fighting and jockeying for position and status.” Interviews with Williams’s fellow Factory fixtures—John Cale of the Velvet Underground, Brigid Berlin, Paul Morrissey, Billy Name, and others—show the bitterness, gossip, and jealousy that characterized the inner workings of Williams’s world. Yet these interviews of elderly, solitary, forgetful “new-agers”—juxtaposed with...