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Despite the often-distracting drama that their movements created, the dancers’ talent abounded. Sabi Varga, set against Mark Stanley’s striking light design, especially shone with his odd, beautiful leaps...
...plummet off computer-generated cliffs. The Persian King Xerxes becomes 9 ft. tall. In one scene a nubile oracle dances in a trance, her hair and her flowy, filmy wrap swirling surreally around her otherwise nude body (300 earns every inch of its R rating). There's something odd about the image that you can't put your finger on, until Snyder explains that the dancer was actually performing in a tank of water and was then digitally placed in the scene: "She looks like she's in pain, but she's really just holding her breath. Which works...
...front, I agree with them: Oxford is not for everyone. If you want a graduate experience that is just like undergrad, stay at Harvard. However, if you can deal with odd library hours and an institution that is admittedly less financially well-provisioned than Harvard (but what school isn’t, really?), then I would encourage you not to be dissuaded by “Oxford Blues.” Oxford will be different, but as long as you are prepared for that reality and can accept the experience for what it is, you can have a wonderful time...
...searching for funds, because at the time the Kennedy School was small and poor,” he says. “We go into this rather odd-looking warehouse...It turns out there are five to six thousand bottles. Starting in 1908, there are 1945 Lafite, Haut-Brion, all the greatest years, and a huge collection of 61s. We all thought, Woah...
...These real-world experiences required Kruger to execute interesting tasks, adapt to odd situations, all while dealing with the stress of being the one to blame if everything were to go wrong...