Word: performances
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Eric C. Engel, an artistic associate of the Nora Theater Company, artist-in-residence of the Freshman Dean's Office and director of the Memorial Hall Complex, said that after the Union closes for renovations, the company will no longer have space to rehearse and perform at Harvard...
...perform the sacramental functions that we no longer have enough priests for?" Thus Jesuit Thomas Rausch, a theologian at Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles, summarizes a sentiment he hears often from master's degree candidates in pastoral studies. "Most of them would be priests if they could," Rausch says. "But they cannot be priests--because they're married or because they're women...
...careering over collapsing bridges on the handlebars of a driverless motorcycle in Sherlock Jr. Watch, and see how beautifully the impossible can be made both visible and risible. The wonder is that the same person had the sharp mind to conceive these amazements and the supple body to perform them. When Buster Keaton got them all to work together--his mind, his body, his intelligent love for film--anything was possible...
...Souza also argues that because racism had its origins among intellectually gifted Europeans during the Enlightenment, it can't be all bad; that American slavery was not a racist institution; and that segregation was merely a well-meaning attempt by paternalistic whites to help blacks "perform to the capacity of their arrested development." He urges the repeal of every major civil rights law in the land, including those that allow blacks to sit at lunch counters and use the same water fountains as everyone else. Thenceforward the government would be required to function in a race-blind manner, but private...
...offbeat celebrities you may not see elsewhere." Her guests on the first week, however, were the sort of offbeat celebrities TV has managed to overexpose thoroughly, like RuPaul and Roger Clinton. Miller's real twist on the late-night formula is to employ a trio of sketch players who perform three or four skits each night. So far, the material has been topical and clever: one sharp sketch featured a Woody Allen impersonator directing a teenage girl in a Calvin Klein...