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...director that Zhang found his true calling and an all-consuming lifelong passion. With Red Sorghum, Ju Dou and Raise the Red Lantern, Zhang proved himself in the art houses abroad. But many mainland critics remained unimpressed, accusing him of "exoticizing" the nation's feudal past and poverty-stricken countryside for foreigners. They felt he should play cultural ambassador, using his camera to burnish China's overseas image. Chinese audiences share this ambivalence. Younger moviegoers have an almost universal description of why they dislike Zhang's fixation on the past and on the countryside: "The films are really just...
Tacky costumes and a passion for performance have remained a part of Braxton-Brooks’ life ever since. She attended the Duke Ellington School of the Arts, a magnet high school for the performing arts in Washington, D.C. There, after her academic day ended, she regularly spent 10 hours a day rehearsing. Cramming for tests in the corner of dance studios during breaks had positive consequences. “I can study anywhere now,” she says...
...passion for his religion even landed him a position on the board of Harvard’s Secular Society. “I wanted the title of chaplain, but they already had a chaplain. So they gave me the title of resident sage,” he says. Halvorson also counts among his accomplishments his role in helping the Harvard Republican Club become the most active campus Republican organization in the country...
Sargent Hall has sculptures extending up to 12 inches off of the canvas, and Sargent used glass, wood, metal and a variety of paints in creating the murals. Still, the workers say it’s worth the effort. “The Straus Center would bring this passion and enthusiasm to any project, but with this project, you are there where [Sargent] stood,” said Maurer. “That is exciting...
They don’t do it because they have to and certainly not because they receive tangible benefits for it. Harvard student-athletes sacrifice and compete because it’s something they truly care about. And for this passion alone they are an important part of our community...