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...comedy jungle, where Robin Williams is a big silverback ape and Jon Stewart a sneaky hyena, Flight of the Conchords are tiny fawns. Their whimsical acoustic-guitar songs and gentle banter totter out on spindly legs to nibble at funny bones. The duo, who claim to be the "fourth most popular folk parodists in New Zealand," sing about the usual stuff--mistaken identity, killer robots, racist dragons--but with an earnest, blinking naiveté. It's a hemisphere away from the witty social commentary that reigns on America's comedy circuit. "I guess we're kind of nerdy hipsters," says Bret...
...These lines were repeated by the women and men, respectively, at the end of the BlackC.A.S.T. production of “when the rainbow is enuf/...& when the streets were too much.” The play is the product of extensive work on the part of director Jon E. Gentry ’07, who adapted and compressed the all-female play “for colored girls who have considered suicide when the rainbow is enuf” by Ntozake Shange and its male counterpart “for black boys who have considered homicide when the streets...
...believe this is the largest gathering of student leaders in Harvard history," said Jon P. Doochin ’04-’05, a founder of the Leadership Institute...
...gender and race: put together, as they have been in blackC.A.S.T.’s inspired adaptation “rainbow/streets,” they bring to life many common themes of African-American experience, from community to the innocence of youth to the power of love. Director Jon E. Gentry ’07 first proposed combining the two plays on a hunch that adapting them to work together would produce a work just as powerful, and more comprehensive as to gender realities. He has found enthusiastic and capable support blackC.A.S.T. producers Shawna J. Strayhorn...
...Each of the five schools saw action in four races, with the Crimson taking care of every squad except BC. Sailing in the event were junior skipper Matthew Knowles and junior crew Cassandra Niemi, freshman skipper Andrew Flynn and sophomore crew Alicia Harley, as well as freshman skipper Jon Garrity and junior crew Ashley Nathanson. The round-robin event was characterized by unseasonably dicey conditions, with wind gusts topping 25 MPH. Vermont, Bowdoin, and Tufts finished in third, fourth, and fifth places, respectively. WOMEN’S JOSEPH DUBLIN TROPHY The No. 10 women’s squad...