Word: manners
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...kind directors were obliged to use a half-century ago. By golly, if he shoots into the sun, he gets lens flare. He induced Thomas Newman to write a lush symphonic score in something like the Max Steiner mode and encouraged his actors to perform in the old presentational manner, as if they'd never heard of Stanislavsky, much less Dr. Freud...
...evening comes from Brian C. Polk ’09 in the role of the Rt. Hon. Sir Joseph Porter, K.C.B., First Lord of the Admiralty, whose extended title reveals all you need to know about his character. Polk gives Sir Joseph a dynamic face and a manner of self-satisfied delight which, along with Sir Joseph’s firm belief that all Englishmen are equal, except himself, create a character who is irresistibly charming despite his obnoxious manner.Miller provides lively choreography for his all-male crew of sailors, who start off the act with their strong voices...
...distinctly Victorian. But even beyond their spatial and temporal remoteness, the pieces tend to play themselves out in a bizarre alternate world, where identities are often mistaken and endings rarely make sense.The history of the Harvard-Radcliffe Gilbert and Sullivan Players (HRG&SP) has often unfolded in a manner as quirky and topsy-turvy as the comedies themselves. The kings and controversies of Gilbert and Sullivan’s libretti seem to jump from the stage into the group’s past.THE MONARCHY PERIODThe Crimson obtained a letter from HRG&SP historian Ben T. Morris...
...plenty of trust falls, but the Div school isn’t your garden variety bible camp. The real meat of the program lies in its labs, where religious scientists experiment with pressing moral paradoxes, like how to turn gays into straights. Scholarship proceeds in a most efficient manner: while Widener wastes trillions each year on books, Andover library gets by on a few donations from the Gideons, a copy of the Bhagavad Gita, and twenty DVDs of Battlefield Earth...
During his first term, which ran from 1971 to 1991, Bok earned a reputation for his often unassuming manner and most memorably, for driving himself to work in a red Volkswagen Beetle...