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...absent resident.Most of the residents who are home offer Murphy nothing more than a handshake and a smile after hearing his overtures. However, Murphy speaks with residents for as long as they wish, sometimes for more than 10 minutes. One Porter Square resident, Glenn Heinmiller, chats with Murphy at length about issues ranging from homelessness to local diversity. Near the end of their conversation, Murphy makes a quick call on his cell phone to find out where Heinmiller should go to get an absentee ballot.The hallmark of door-to-door work, Murphy says, lies in its variety...
...biological and ethical issues raised by genetic research, from the nature of aging to the “market for human perfection.” However, this brief excerpt, while visually interesting, lacked clarity of intention, and the moments of narration appeared forced and unexpected. Perhaps the full-length work will provide the framework for addressing these structural issues. The highlight of the evening was clearly the third and final piece of the program, “Small Dances About Big Ideas.” This piece was commissioned by the Harvard Law School’s Facing History...
...strong and relentless demon Mahisha in a 10-day battle, during which Mahisha transforms from a man to a tiger to a bull. In the fast-paced opening scene, purple, orange, and magenta costumes ran across the stage. Eight dancers with plastered smiles, kajol-lined eyes, and waist-length hair extensions wore the full authentic Bharatnatyam preparations, all of which helped these talented dancers demonstrate their full range. As Chamundeshwari, Prerna Martin ’09 ably performed an exhausting sequences of steps and poses that demonstrated why I need to head to the Mac more often. With an intense...
...style, Tricked (Top Shelf Productions; $20), by Alex Robinson, comes from an author who works in large scale. His first graphic novel, Box Office Poison (2001), spent over 500 pages examining the lives of a group of 20-somethings living in New York. Tricked gets more focused, both in length (only 350 pages!) and ambition. Carefully and cleverly structured to weave six separate stories together into a climax, Tricked reveals both the pitfalls and the appeal of this increasingly popular kind of narrative...
...people can harness a thousand words’ worth of potential from a single image. Abigail Child ’68 is one exception. Child is a director of short films, a genre that suggests a trimming down of the plot, character development, and thematic material of full-length movies. Yet her 20-minute and 40-minute shorts resonate as strongly as anything longer, mainly because of her unique filmmaking style. Combining elements of montage, documentary, and the avant-garde, she creates subtexts where none previously existed, stories where they may not have been found, and symbols out of everyday...