Word: poignant
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Director Andy B. Malone ’08, Musical director Jeff W. Howard ’08 and Choreographer Olivia A. Jennings ’06 have arranged some poignant love scenes, rehearsed beautiful songs and highly complex dance routines and have literally called upon every dance genre ever invented for the finale...
...chanting of the four hijackers in a New York hotel room and then between passengers reciting the Lord’s Prayer and the hijackers again praying as the plane sways towards the velvet Appalachians. “United 93” is a superbly shot film, with strikingly poignant sequences that heighten the spiritual feel—the airplanes lined up on the tarmac looking fuzzy in the boiling heat of their engines, the Twin Towers burning desperately through a window of the banking plane. Greengrass uses a soft focus and grainy film to create a washed-out effect...
...show Antiques Roadshow to get appraised. Along the journey from his depressing home to public television, he meets an unlikely love interest (Kathleen E. Hale ’09) and overcomes his inferiority complex. Bartels was very engaging as the sarcastic, impenetrable protagonist, shining especially in his poignant apostrophe to the vulture (yes, to the vulture) at the end of the show. Female lead Hale did the witty script justice, nailing the one—and sometimes 15—line comebacks to Bartels’s unmitigated insults. Though they didn’t hit the high notes...
...Maria (Rachel C. Porter ’07), the sister of the leader of the Sharks.Brondfield is an undeniably great singer. However, the emotion behind his words is not always conveyed—when singing “Maria,” there is a large disconnect between the poignant lyrics and Brondfield’s expressionless body. This problem does not persist throughout his performance, and he really connects with the audience during the song “Tonight,” where his voice is also best showcased.Porter’s delicate soprano voice, which at times...
...president. The rest of the room watched in choked-up silence, hanging onto every word of resident scholar and moderator Peter Emerson’s tribute to Cosgriff, Walsh, and Lucchino. Among Emerson’s remarks was an apology to Lucchino for shedding light on an act of poignant relative anonymity...