Word: macdonald
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...might have been: "Titian and Rembrandt were great painters: I am only a public entertainer who has understood...the imbecility, the vanity, the stupidity of his contemporaries." Having fooled a generation of "masters and critics," as he called them, Picasso was no longer able to fool himself. Ian Macdonald, Sydney...
...most violent moments. The tone is surprisingly light considering the crimes that the dictators are being charged with: genocide and the destruction of the nation’s economy. Yet this helps to emphasize the disconnect between the realities of Nicolae (Thomas Derrah) and Elena (Karen MacDonald) and those of their people. Elena believes that she is a world-renowned scientist, although she only attended school through the fourth grade. Nicolae spends enormous amounts of the country’s budget on tributes to himself. Vlad Tepes (performed on Friday night by understudy Josh Stamell), the historical Dracula, makes frequent...
Cambridge public schools that failed to achieve the targets of No Child Left Behind could still be making progress, district officials said at a presentation to the city’s school committee last night. Maryann MacDonald, the executive director of student achievement and accountability, and superintendent Thomas Fowler-Finn, discussed the district’s results on the MCAS, the state’s standardized tests, highlighting both areas of improvement and places that need more work. The aggregate scores showed that in many tests, public schools in Cambridge do not do as well as those in the state...
...Harvard men’s golf team swung its way to a promising start, holding third place after one round at the MacDonald Cup this weekend. But the grind of 54 holes and soggy skies took their toll on the team, which settled for sixth place. “It was alright, nothing really spectacular,” junior Danny Mayer said. “We played pretty well the first round, and we kind of didn’t play well the last two rounds. Overall, it wasn’t that great of a performance...
...what could be called the turning point of “Choke,” Clark Gregg’s directorial debut, a doctor played by Kelly Macdonald reveals that Sam Rockwell’s character may share genetic material with Jesus Christ. “So you’re saying I’m the son of Jesus Christ?” he asks. “More like His half-clone,” she replies.There are a handful of delirious revelations like this in the film—which is adapted from the Chuck Palahniuk novel...