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...Western film cultists discovered India's pop cinema, they also found a master composer. If one song triggered Rahmania among non-Indians in the West, it was Chaiyya Chaiyya, from another Ratnam terrorist tragedy Dil Se. Shahrukh Khan stands atop a speeding train and (using the thrilling voice of Sukhwinder Singh) performs this update of a Sufi chant. It remains Rahman's most pulsing, irresistible piece, and when it opens the second act of Bombay Dreams, it has audiences stamping their feet and cheering...
...hero of Little Children, to the extent that it has one, is Sarah, a woman with a master's degree who finds herself at the age of thirtysomething watching her 3 year-old daughter frolic in a manicured playground, surrounded by a coven of fellow mothers who are capable of discussing only "the eating, sleeping, and defecating habits of their offspring, the merits of certain local nursery schools, and the difficulty of sticking to an exercise routine." For fun, she fantasizes about the host of Blue's Clues. Ouch. Todd, the iceberg to Sarah's Titanic, is a genial...
Kirkland House Master Tom Conley said that so far, the student feedback, both from the HoCo and from “students at large,” has been positive...
...Master Dorothy A. Austin and I] are very excited about it and hope to wield a hammer one weekend ourselves,” Lowell Master Diana L. Eck writes in an e-mail...
Adams House Master Judith S. Palfrey, for one, says that the level of success of the Lowell project could influence whether her own House will pursue such an activity...