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Despite occasional rain and overcast skies, participants said Harvard's fifth annual Arts First Weekend was a triumph of creativity and performances...

Author: By Murad S. Hussain, | Title: Arts First Celebrations Draw Crowds | 5/5/1997 | See Source »

Some of the multiple-player scenes did succeed in pacing themselves successfully. Such was the case in a scene from The Taming of the Shrew: Steindler, a ferocious Kate, and Hanson, as a positively alarming Petruchio, managed somehow to give the comic scene a deeply sinister overcast. A more complete success was the closing selection, Lady Macbeth's famous sleepwalking episode from Macbeth, in which Staniunas as the somnabulant homicide and Wood as her Gentlewoman gave a deeply disturbing performance. The JCR's lighting was fully exploited to create a frighteningly shadowy scene...

Author: By Susannah R. Mandel, | Title: Wood Offers Brash Showing Of Verse on Bard's Birthday | 4/29/1997 | See Source »

...kind of Big Ideas that millennial thinking seems to demand, he scribbled revisions in his text right down to the wire. After attending a church service with his family, and basking in the oratory of Jesse Jackson, the President headed down to the ceremony on a frigid and overcast morning. As if on cue, the winter sun broke through the clouds just moments before the President raised his right hand, placed his left on a well-worn family Bible held by his wife, and took the oath of office. In his 25-minute speech, Clinton brushed over specifics, touching...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: One America, A New Century | 1/20/1997 | See Source »

Earlier this summer, Kemp saw his political career as being in the twilight. Last month he described himself to a Buffalo newspaper as a "recovering politician." On an overcast afternoon in Kansas last week, Jack Kemp's political recovery was complete...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CONVENTION '96: JACK BE NIMBLE | 8/19/1996 | See Source »

...Secretary General Boutros Boutros-Ghali had asked Israel for a "clarification" on the more damning aspects of the U.N. report, which is expected to be made public on Tuesday. Israel blames the bombing on a mapping mistake that miscalculated the location of the U.N. compound. An army spokesman said overcast skies prevented the gunners from seeing their target, but Marlowe says the video shows clear visibility over Qana. Despite a push from Boutros- Ghali for a resolution condemning Israel for the attack, the U.S. has so far prevented a condemnation, arguing that assessing blame could hinder efforts at reaching...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Caught On Tape | 5/6/1996 | See Source »

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