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...Interest back home is at unprecedented levels. Now, perhaps as much as at any time in recent history, America’s actions matter to our audiences, on the real battlefields of Iraq and Afghanistan or the virtual ones of the global financial markets...
...purposefully off-putting. Barlow compares pigtail fat to nose mucus: “Underneath [the skin of the pig tail] is a layer of blubber...The fatty skin disintegrates as it comes away, gooking up my fingers like boogers that I can’t get rid of no matter where I wipe.” And his juxtapositions are equally nauseating. Passages about homemade chorizo are interrupted with descriptions of bovine flatulence and sloughed foot calluses. And because his journey is so ill-defined, we can’t even breathe a sigh of relief as he crunches...
...range of human emotion,” says co-director Aditi Sen ’09. “We just want to show how dance can be extremely moving, and in different ways. It’s not just moving in sheer beauty, but also through subject matter.” Co-director Prerna Martin ’09 wants to show the audience the full range of Bharatha Natyam’s potential. “This year we’re trying something that’s not [conventional],” Martin says...
...classic. In 1976, they arose in the wake of the punk rock revolution. Fronted by Robert Smith and featuring an ever-changing line-up, The Cure quickly gained fame and have been cited in countless “influenced by” lists. With their dark subject matter, gloomy and haunting melodies, and tormented image, they were branded as “gothic,” a label Smith constantly hopes to shun. Accordingly, the band has progressively gained a much more mainstream sound. With “4:13 Dream,” The Cure has released its most...
...height of the Cold War, and yet our national morale has never since been so high. Another of our greatest presidents, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Class of 1904, looked to the arts to restore the confidence of the American people in the depths of the Great Depression, because no matter what congressional Republicans say, art is cheap. The NEA didn’t exist until 1965, but in 1935, when the unemployment rate was over 20 percent, Roosevelt created over 40,000 government jobs for artists under the Works Progress Administration. In 1995, the year before the Congress?...