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...fact, I liked this show so much that I’m going to get my one criticism out of the way now and be done with it: the pit orchestra is terrible. It’s been terrible at every HRG&SP production I’ve seen here, but this one beats them all. It is constantly out of tune, out of rhythm, out of sync, and it single-handedly ruins a few otherwise excellent musical numbers. At the beginning of the second act, as the orchestra started tuning, all I could think...
Knowles’ comparisons pit Harvard against peer institutions. At Yale, for example, 39 percent of professors are hard scientists—3 percentage points above the figure for Harvard. (Princeton, Stanford, and Berkeley are even more heavily weighted toward the hard-science side.) Meanwhile, just 24 percent of Yale faculty members are social scientists, 10 percentage points below the Harvard figure. (The other three schools’ faculties have even smaller social science contingents...
...band era but thrashed about like a rock star. What Elvis Presley did with his hips, Hutton did with her entire body. She didn't stand behind the mike; she ran amok across the stage, once torpedoing off it and landing on the drummer in the orchestra pit. (Rim shot.) Life with Hutton was just as perilous in Hollywood. She cracked three ribs getting tossed about by acrobats in the movie Incendiary Blonde. Her exuberance often injured her co-stars; she knocked out one actor, made another faint away, separated Hope's caps from his teeth. "When they work with...
...hundred yards away we found two rocket firing positions, one of them located in a 15-foot deep pit with reinforced concrete walls. A tunnel at the rear wall doglegged after a few feet into a small chamber lined with panels from wooden ammunition boxes where the rockets would have been stored. The second post consisted of a foot-thick reinforced concrete frame smothered with sandbags and camouflage netting and bolstered by Hesco blast protection walls. Even from a few yards up the hill, the position was all but invisible. And during the war, Hizballah gunners had tossed fire-retardant...
...Queen’s Head will be a pleasant counterpoint to the orgiastic, fluorescent bear-pit that is the Lamont Café. Hopefully, it will obtain the Café’s popularity while sustaining the grandfatherly allure of the fifth floor’s Farnsworth Room—the last of the great laptop-free zones...