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High school: A mild infatuation with all things in uniform ensues...
...private collections. The groups were organized by Shunsui Matsuda, a benshi who died in 1987. The clubs re-created the original conditions of silent screenings. Last fall, the Pordenone festival invited Midori Sawato, the last in the line of professional benshi, to perform. She transformed herself from a petite mild-mannered woman to a wild narrator on stage, exploding into a shower of tones, sounds and voices...
...dump the guidebooks and read Mikhail Bulgakov's novel The Master and Margarita, a mix of black humor, satire and mild erotica set in Moscow in the '20s, a time not so different from now. Apart from the traffic - cars are strangling Moscow, and should be avoided as much as possible. So choose an area and walk...
...have to pretend to be nice even though you’re a total bitch.” And it’s true. I’ve always had difficulty being completely honest with people who rub me the wrong way or complicate my life. It has taken mild forms like when an elementary school student from Mission Hill who attended the pageant approached me moments after my victory. “Miss Harvard, may I have a rose?” she asked. I begrudgingly gave her one—along with a superficial smile...
...Goat is a supreme frustration. It offers the promise of something so much greater than it delivers. For a man who usually asks difficult questions and evokes fantastic images, Albee has settled for mild taunts and thorough something. If anything, The Goat should be remembered as a statement in irony. In going for the easy joke, Albee missed the big picture—and the humor...