Word: pleasingness
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DIED. MOIRA SHEARER, 80, Scottish ballet dancer, actress and writer famed for her role as the ballerina in the 1948 classic The Red Shoes; in Oxford, Britain. Flame-haired and strikingly beautiful, Shearer danced iconic parts for London's Sadler's Wells (now Royal) Ballet in the 1940s. But she...
“Tea is the great punctuation mark in my week,” he says. “I’ve also learned that college students are always hungry, and sweet foods are always pleasing.”
But there's no corresponding willingness on the part of readers to give up the quirky characters and vivid details and sexy twists and pleasing, rounded endings they're used to in fiction. To get those effects in nonfiction, writers sometimes cut corners--the factual kind. "If you want to...
THE NUT "QRAC" KERLOCATION: Harvard Dance CenterDATES: Dec. 16-17DIRECTOR: Kate O. Ahlborn ’07 and Ebonie D. Hazle ’06PRODUCER: Alissa C. Clarke ’07Presenting excerpts from the Christmas classic “The Nutcracker,” the Harvard Ballet Company...
Carefully but critically, for it's simply not an option to be totally faithful to a fat novel. The movie version of Arthur Golden's Memoirs of a Geisha takes 2 hr. 24 min.; reading his text could take weeks. Almost any novel's plot must be compressed into a...