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...crime caper, and leave it at that. His 1955 Rififi, with its wordless, minutely-detailed, half-hour jewel robbery, and the 1964 Topkapi, with an even more elaborate heist, inspired dozens of imitations, in films from The Killing, Ocean's Eleven and The Italian Job to The Usual Suspects, Mission: Impossible 2 and that mini-masterpiece of stop-motion animation, Wallace & Gromit in The Wrong Trousers. If some star is hanging from a rope over riches protected by a sophisticated alarm system, there's no one but Dassin to thank for it. An official remake of Rififi...
Before endorsing Harvard’s recent practice of videotaping lectures for online use, we must consider its effect on our pedagogical mission. Many see this as simply a convenience, one among many that modern technology affords us. They assume having access to lectures could only be helpful in the overall goal of education. In practical reality, though, lecture videos hurt students and the college as a whole...
...20th century masterpieces program, so it’s a great chance to see three really superb, really contrasting works by real master choreographers of the 20th century,” Rachel Yurman, the program’s moderator, says. “The larger purpose is that our mission is to educate as well as to perform. This is a great way to bring our performance close to not only audiences of today but audiences of the future.” Because “Dark Elegies” was not yet in rehearsal, Nissinen provided a brief, heartfelt...
...about an incident in 2005 in which a record-setting 104 out of 110 winners of a Powerball lottery chose the same five numbers—using fortune cookies. It was this story, and the discovery that the fortune cookie is not Chinese, that sparked Lee’s mission to learn more about the dessert. This search leads her to examine, tangentially, other facets of the American Chinese food industry: the ubiquity of the take-out menu, the popularity of chop suey, the integral role played by Chinese immigrants. Written from the first-person perspective, Lee?...
...Lighting also proved particularly challenging, as they had to balance enhancing the aesthetics of the exhibit and strict rules in place to prevent further deterioration of the objects. The HMNH says it is excited about the opportunity to debut the previously glass creatures. “Part of the mission is to showcase Harvard collections such as this one which has never before been showcased in Cambridge. This is a jewel of a collection and we are absolutely thrilled to present it to the public,” says Elisabeth Werby, Executive Director of the HMNH. As for future plans...