Word: odes
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...play’s most contrary lines: “I was drawing a pink unicorn, and then everything was futile.” Linus (Andrew G. Sullivan ’06) reaches equal heights during “My Blanket and Me,” an ode to his most beloved object. To him, blankets can be just as addictive as brandy, coffee, or cigarettes. Words aren’t even necessary to stand out in this musical. Woodstock (Samantha K. Biegler ’08), a character this company brought to the stage from Schulz?...
...Earlier, the President had said, "I call him, Wolfgang; he calls me, George W." Certainly, now he also is proud to call him "friend." Bush, greeted on his way into Budapest by crowds of shirtless men lining the roadways, was to conclude his trip with a hilltop ode to democracy marking the 50th anniversary of Hungary's unsuccessful 1956 uprising against Communist rule. His planned remarks, bolstering the philosophical case for his "freedom agenda," made a subtle but unmistakable allusion to Iraq by suggesting that once a democracy is established, that sets an example and others will follow...
...breakthrough was Monsoon Wedding--a love song to my Delhi and an ode to masti, the Punjabi intoxication with life. I wanted to capture my India, a place that has always lived in several centuries at once, an India of cell phones and peacocks, where housewives play the stock market, Cuban cigars are savored and a marigold-eating tent man reinvents himself as an event manager, only to be undone by love. Little did I know then that people from Iceland to Hungary to Southern California would claim the Vermas as their family and our wedding as theirs...
...state. Why is it that the governors of the Niger Delta states, with increased revenue allocation from the central government, have done little for their people? The militia guns may someday be turned against the political élite. The 2007 elections are fast approaching. Niran Adetoro Ijebu-ode, Nigeria While reading your report about Nigeria, I was wondering whom to blame. If Nigerians who live in Europe or the U.S. don't help their country, nothing will change. Oil companies will never stop exploiting their sources unless the U.N. puts an end to the catastrophe that Nigerians face. Giannis Piliouras...
...breakthrough was Monsoon Wedding - an intimate family flick, a love song to my Delhi and an ode to masti, the Punjabi intoxication with life. I wanted to capture my India, a place that has always lived in several centuries at once, an India of cell phones and peacocks, where housewives play the stock market, Cuban cigars are savored, and a marigold-eating tent-man reinvents himself as an event manager only to be undone by love. Little did I know then that people from Iceland to Hungary to Southern California would claim the Vermas as their family, and our wedding...