Word: mannerize
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...spaces of brown-stone stoops and street corners; she captures the unseen places of sandlots and sidestreets. Her interpretation of the city is an urban sprawl parcelled into discrete little packages. Levitt shuns the easy and trite depictions that populate the popular mind and illuminates street scenes in a manner that is in equal measure gritty and paradoxically poetic...
This was not an isolated incident. Over the past 18 months, Israel has demolished hundreds of houses in such a manner, as well as uprooting and destroying thousands of acres of agricultural lands...
...Sangita Shresthova, a graduate student at MIT, showcased a similarly strong connection between movement and music. Shresthova choreographed in the style of Bharat Natyam, a classical Indian dance form, hoping to give her audience a feel for the great spiritual importance of this dance. Shresthova moved in a manner completely different from the movement in pieces like Shade’s “Percussive Us,” but the difference was appropriate for the music and stunning in its own right. With captivating images in red and black, accompanied by staccato head and arm motions, Shresthova invoked...
Tina Y. Tanhehco ’05 also contributed to the lighthearted aspect of the show with “Stripped,” which explored gender roles and power structures within relationships in a rather comic manner. Tanhehco’s piece started with a male and a female dancer (danced by Tanhehco herself) exchanging both clothing and body language, as Dar Williams’ lyrics, “I will not be afraid of women” blared in the background. The piece examined the roles that men and women are taught to play with each other, tempering...
Dershowitz also said he had not yet been approached by students to discuss the topic in a formal manner...