Word: polished
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...Christian I.C. Strong ’09, “Fabulation” boasted an eight-member cast who adeptly handled the play’s 27 roles. The production, which ran April 12-14 in the Loeb Experimental Theater, had a few opening-night chips in its polish, but more than compensated with a fantastic script (by Lynn Notage) and great acting...
...Africa's indigenous cultures and traditions," Godwin observes, "but not long enough to leave behind a durable replacement." Godwin's own story lends another layer of historical irony. In 2001 he learned that his father was not, as he had always believed, an English immigrant. He was a Polish Jew who had fled the Holocaust. "Being a white here," Godwin's father observes, dismayed at the rising chaos, "is starting to feel a bit like being a Jew in Poland...
...about 400,000 people sitting amid some of Iraq's most fertile farmlands. Violence soon followed. Women accused of violating the draconian brand of Islamic law espoused by al-Sadr and his Mahdi Army militia began turning up dead in Diwaniyah. Residents working with coalition forces at a Polish army base in the area became targets too, as did local journalists, wealthy residents and some members of the police, which are thought to have links to a rival Shi'ite militia, the Badr Brigade. By the end of March local officials say nearly 60 people had been killed. On March...
...recounts. Darling provides a laundry list of the sundry men she’s tumbled into bed with during the temporal black hole since that bedtime chat freshman year: “a progressive-rock disk jockey in Richmond, Virginia; the faux scion of a Polish count; a marijuana-runner on the North Carolina coast.” Enter debonair White House correspondent Lee A. Lescaze. They meet for drinks. He compares her to a character in a Ford Maddox Ford novel and she’s pretty much smitten. Darling narrates an eerie scene of gazing from her apartment...
...destination cities, and the host gallery must organize free public screenings. Several Harvard professors and students, as well as visitors from MIT and the New York-based magazine Bidoun have or will organize screenings.Harvard’s screening series began on March 14, with an examination of Polish videos from the 1970s and 1990s curated by History of Art and Architecture professor Ewa Lajer-Burcharth, who participated in Poland’s underground art scene in the 1980s before moving to the United States. When Lajer-Burcharth was asked to curate her evening, she began by looking...