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...Kathleen Martinez, an archaeologist from the Dominican Republic who has conducted the digs at Abusir for the past three years, told reporters that she wants "to be Cleopatra's lawyer," and prove there is much more to the ancient potentate than the work of two thousands years of Western male imagination. Debates still rage over everything from Cleopatra's identity - cranial scans of her half-sister's skull this year suggested she may be African, though her known lineage was Greek - to her looks. Close scrutiny of coin portraits have led some to believe that she was rather plain...
What is new here is remarkable. In one sequence shot entirely in night vision, a ghostly green pride of lions stakes out a watering hole and hunts and kills a young male elephant, in the midst of a violent electrical storm. Another scene shows a flock of cranes struggling against the wind to cross the Himalaya Mountains. (See the top 10 movie performances...
...material for young children - no actual killing is shown on film - and Earth is rated G. For a nature film, Earth also takes a notably G-rated stance on the subject of the environment. Climate change is mentioned a few times in passing - and we see a male polar bear in northern Norway struggling with melting sea ice - but there is no real message or explanation of it here. Instead of doom, the overall mood is joy, the renewal that comes with rain and sun and summer. Never mind that there's less rain and hotter summers - this film...
...housewife, the pink sundress of a Southern belle, the sequined mini-dress of a hooker. Lysistrata (Olivia J. Jampol ’09), stomping around in a black mini-skirt, black boots, and a leopard-print jacket, was convincing as a galvanizing force and militant feminist. After the male politicians and military officers ignore her initial pleas for peace between Athens and Sparta, she persuades the Athenian women to lock themselves up in Acropolis. But first, the lights dimmed as the men and women engaged in ninja-style combat. Points go to Ismenia (Vanessa...
...movements and lifts by performers Puanani H. Brown ’12, James C. Fuller ’10, Amanda C. Lynch ’10, Kevin Shee ’11, and Elizabeth C. Walker ’11. The interplay between the bodies of the two male dancers and three female dancers throughout the performance created an overall elegance and grace comparable to that of any professional company.When Diaghilev was asked about the ensuing riot some 90 years ago, he allegedly stated that it was just what he wanted. On Saturday night, the Harvard Dance Program attempted...