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...lines. "Draw lines, young man, many lines," the old painter Ingres had advised Edgar Degas in the 1850s. That's what Al did: kept filling the page with many lines, many people, lots of furniture, until the image was as cramped as the cabin in "A Night at the Opera...
...Vadis?, the mayor asked me to say a few words in Italian," Ustinov recalls. "I reminded him I was Nero, who only spoke Latin." The story captures the wit and erudition for which Ustinov - who was knighted in 1990 for his accomplishments as an actor, director, playwright, opera-producer, historian, philosopher and raconteur-at-large - has long been celebrated...
Genius or oddball? Today many consider Peter Sellars one the world’s leading theater, opera and television directors. He’s been a part of more than 100 productions, large and small, across America and abroad. He’s served as artistic director of the Boston Shakespeare Company, and at 26 he became director of the Kennedy Center’s American National Theatre...
...scene for a Wellesley formal when they were singled out to be in a partner-switching dance sequence. Lane D. Levine ’06 found himself “stepping on a lot of feet,” including the semi-celebrity toes of a soap opera star, while Jay R. Minga ’05 experienced considerably greater body contact in an experience he describes as “terribly memorable...
While Hatcher called their schedule “fairly packed,” they found time to climb the Great Wall, see parts of the Forbidden City, visit the Peking Opera and tour Tiananmen Square...