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...White House, voters have carved out a Mount Brushmore of Presidents--Kennedy, Ronald Reagan, Bill Clinton--with magnificent hair. What we need is a tonsorial memorial to those giants--Ike, Winston Churchill, Mohandas Gandhi, David Ben-Gurion--of the World War II era, that one brief and very shining moment in history when baldness was tantamount to greatness...
...stage, Paulus, but what does it mean to dance in life?” Two weeks later, he found the answer when he saw a woman throwing a pot. “I want to learn that dance,” he said to himself, and in that moment took up the craft of pottery. The metaphysical ties between clay, dance, and creation were explored at the program “Clay Body, Human Body” presented by the Office for the Arts at Harvard (OFA) at the Harvard Dance Center this past weekend. The program featured discussions with...
...opening shot of “Dan in Real Life,” the latest film from “Pieces of April” director Peter Hedges, focuses, naturally, on Dan. Dan wakes up, takes a moment to collect himself, sighs and says “O.K.” This is his first and last moment of tranquility for the day. Such thoughtful moments redeem what could be dismissed as yet another cliché romantic comedy, complete with an out-of-touch parent struggling to raise his children and have a personal life. Meet Dan Burns: a widowed...
...design smacks of Gwen. She doesn’t even dance, despite the fact that nothing else is going on; instead, she jerkily moves around the stage, rubbing her cheeks against sparkly skull-shaped microphones and looking as if she’s in arthritic pain. The only redeeming moment comes when she wiggles her bum for the camera, but the wiggling is brief and, well, old news. —Jenny...
...with opportunity,” said Ernest Green, one of the Little Rock Nine. “I said if Little Rock Central was going to be desegregated, I wanted to be part of it.” While the integration of Central High School was a decisive historical moment in the civil rights movement, the panel reminded the audience that they were real people with real emotions. “Little Rock gave me an opportunity to learn more about myself,” said Terrence Roberts, who is now a psychologist in Pasadena, Calif. “What...