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...pantomime, physical comedy and athleticism. "People think our skating is eccentric. It's not so," Groebli told TIME during the pair's first U.S. tour, in 1939. "Any figure skater should be able to do a serious spread eagle"--in which he skates with his body bent backward nearly parallel to the ice--"asleep...
...From tilting against the U.S. in 2003 to challenging China now, is France becoming the world's default Don Quixote? Five years ago Paris flamboyantly opposed the war of the American "hyperpower" in Iraq; now it opposes human-rights violations committed in Tibet by tomorrow's superpower, China. The parallel undeniably flatters the French ego, since it suggests the supremacy of ethics over realpolitik in French diplomacy. But the reality is slightly more complex...
...play uses colonization as a parallel to sexual repression. The first act, which takes place in colonial Africa, is played as a satire with the majority of the characters either gay or portrayed by the wrong member of each sex. During the second act, which takes place in Britain during the 1970s, the sexually repressed characters break free of societal bounds in the more liberal era. The younger characters decide to have an orgy, and Betty (Elyssa Jakim ’10), an older and recently divorced woman, discusses her realization of the merits of masturbation. The problem, however...
...tennis this spring. “If we flooded this, we had a very definite chance of winning,” Canaday resident Spencer H. Hardwick ’11 said. According to the announcement by the Frosh IM staff, the organization of the tournament was changed to parallel the house format, with matches consisting of one men’s singles, one women’s singles, and one mixed doubles. Each dorm is also required to field that number of teams. In a heated Canaday e-mail thread, Julienne K. Coleman ’11 criticized the decision...
...scales, but the arrangement drew heavily on European classical music, setting up tension through suspended notes and delayed resolutions. European melodies emerged to complement the African chant, finding common ground between the two distinct systems of tonality.The video accompaniment further emphasized the common ground between the two traditions, showing parallel shots of a priest gesturing with a prayer staff and a symphony conductor waving a baton. The priest, backlit by torchlight flickering through plumes of smoke, held the maqwammiya like a microphone as he chanted.But Astatke resists the temptation to blindly search for an Ethiopian counterpart to every European tradition...