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...credibility here are clearly instinctual. But her Hedda is recklessly artificial and horribly overplanned. For a while, I thought that her cartoonishness might have been the point of her performance; but, in truth, many of her Harvard turns (most egregiously in The Waverly Gallery and Chess, but even in minor twaddle like Ivory Towers) have suffered from the same overthought, reactive theatricality so often and inexplicably mistaken for the height of realism—in which every movement and inflection is beautiful, but deliberate and unspontaneous. There is no unconsciousness to her; her gestures and her words are always...

Author: By Benjamin J. Soskin, ON THEATER | Title: Review: 'Hedda' Fueled by Destruction | 4/26/2004 | See Source »

...into some kind of associate membership. But Howard resisted Blair's attempt to shove the contest onto such favorable turf. Instead, he painted the constitution as a way station on the slippery slope to a European superstate, and the downside of rejecting it as minor. "If this constitution does not proceed as a consequence of a no vote in this country, Britain would remain a full participating member of the European Union," Howard insisted. Any referendum is still a long way off - no earlier than fall 2005 - and some Labour M.P.s are hoping Blair will use that time to slip...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Tony's Big Adventure | 4/25/2004 | See Source »

...hands-on approach turned out to be more than the planners bargained for after this reporter cut himself with a circular saw. While the injury turned out to be minor, Safdi says that power tools will likely be off-limits to participants in the future for safety and liability concerns...

Author: By Alan J. Tabak, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: New Homes, Courtesy of Lowell | 4/23/2004 | See Source »

Part three of Lucas Belvaux’s The Trilogy comes to the Brattle to finish the series. Each one features interlocking stories—a major character in one is a minor one in the next—and is done as a different genre—the first and second films were a thriller and a comedy, respectively—leaving this melodrama to complete the story. This features Pascal, a cop and his heroin abuser wife that he loves too much to cut her off. In fact, he does whatever he can to make sure...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: NO HEADLINE | 4/23/2004 | See Source »

...last band to perform at Springfest, the Verve Pipe, was paid $15,000 in 2002. Still running on the fumes of their minor hit from 1996, “The Freshman,” the Verve Pipe understandably failed to please many students...

Author: By Nathaniel A. Smith, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Springfest Grows Up | 4/23/2004 | See Source »

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