Word: nair
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Mira Nair '79 and Felipe M. Noguera '77 gave the winning speeches in this year's Boylston speaking contest last night before more than 200 people in Boylston Hall...
...Nair won $175 for delivering part of Jocasta's speech from a modern adaptation of Seneca's Oedipus. A transfer student from Delhi University, she won first prize in a nationwide speech contest in India...
Without the dancers (June Kinoshita, Mira Nair, Maura Moynihan, Laurie Merrick) the plot would not hold together well, nor would it be as exciting. The dancers' movements are poetic, blending with the words and the music so thoroughly that they are inseparable. The different elements explain and express each other...
...Mira Nair as Creon's wife Pilar also gives Antigona plenty to react to. Vain, evil and ambitious, Nair survives what must be poorly translated lines with the proper doses of viper and Eva Peron...
...Bates-Hay goal is modest but realistic: to enable their charges to understand about half the time. The other half may still drive Asians to distraction, but at least some of them will soon be able to complain fluently: "I got a split nair dyke. Smor niken bear. I left a tiger nippy sea." In short, "I've got a splitting headache. It's more than I can bear. I'll have to take an APC tablet." When it comes to the strain of Strine, in fact, those tablets may be the only remedy...