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...coming to Boston’s Institute of Contemporary Art tonight and tomorrow—is called the GIMP project, and its name perfectly exemplifies her bold and unabashed intention to honor the different ways in which the disabled move. In fact, the project’s website points out certain different meanings for the word “gimp,” including “a ribbon like, braided fabric… fighting spirit; vigor…[and] to turn, vacillate, tremble ecstatically.” Her motive is not political, but by highlighting the new beauty...
...Harvard has been honoring jazz masters for some 30 years, according to Thomas Everett, director of the Harvard University Band and Jazz Bands, but the unique title of Jazz Master in Residence is fairly new. While Everett admits that “1959 was really remarkable, a real turning point for modern jazz,” the 50 year anniversary is a mere—but fitting—coincidence; the honor here is all about legendary jazz drummer Roy Haynes. Everett says that a Jazz Master in Residence “usually means a senior member in the jazz...
...strikingly affecting. No words are left unsaid, and no character is immune to the plague that is suburbia. Rather, the film takes the old story of trouble in suburbia and twists the melodrama into something fresh, molding family dynamics into moments of poignancy. Jimmy’s tipping point, for example, presents an unfiltered picture of psychological unravel that sits starkly in the trail of the film’s ruthless emotional episodes.For the most part, the cast is flawless in performance. It may be difficult for some to imagine Alec Baldwin as anyone other than Jack Donaghy from...
...gets to the point where you don’t want to wear your uniform to class because you know you’re going to stand out,” said ROTC participant Shawna L. Sinnott...
...she’s creating the plot-like quality of her life for herself. The use of third person lends an enhancing element of dramatic irony through seeing both Jessica and Marcus’s processing of the same present events and histories as they diverged from the same point.“Perfect Fifths” renders an interesting balance between intimacy and distance of characterization. It is primarily third person, a departure from the first-person letters and diary entries that were the rest of the series. Throughout the novel, McCafferty branches into more unconventional forms. One chapter...