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...audience. “The festival is a magnet for aficionados and practitioners alike,” says Levin.At the end of the day, the goal of early music is not scholarly but aesthetic. Rodin says: “We don’t want to create a fossilized object. Our major concern is to make the music engaging to the audience.” Friedman articulates similar sentiments: “[Early music] is not really about what the composer wanted so much as exploring what they might have heard, and what it might have sounded like...
Lucas has tried for years to be the irresistible force to the exhibitors' immovable object. In 2002, when he released Star Wars: Episode II--Attack of the Clones, he opened it on 63 digital screens in North America, along with the thousands of screens showing the film version, and declared that in three years, when Revenge of the Sith came out, it would play only digitally. He says he even offered the exhibitors a financial incentive: "It costs about $1,200 for a film print and about $200 for a digital print. So what you do is charge the distributor...
...does the residents’ perception that their potential neighbors object to the construction of 310 units of low-income housing for the Charlesview residents make the move more palatable, Rojas said. Rojas referred to a meeting last Thursday at which neighbors of the new site sharply questioned Harvard officials about the ramifications of the move...
...hardly a progressive move on the part of the voters. Similarly, more than half a century later, another black woman, Halle Berry, was awarded by the Academy, this time for a role that found her imprinted in the public imagination as a rough, nearly animalistic sex object for a white man—not coincidentally, the other prevailing image of black women. That same year, the Academy also rewarded Denzel Washington for his portrayal of—surprise!—a criminal. It’s widely agreed that this wasn’t Washington’s best...
...Assistant Professor of Islamic Studies M. Shahab Ahmed jokes, “If one is to object to anything it should be that he runs Disneyland Paris...