Word: presented
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...Ricky represents the filmmaker as foreigner. By using his camera as a tool of estrangement, he reacquaints himself with reality, seeing it in a new way. That is, after all, the job of a filmmaker: to present the audience with a new view of an old world. In American Beauty, Mendes succeeds wonderfully, turning our eyes not only to the hollowness and pains of suburbia but to the underlying beauty we can discover if we look a little closer...
Following last year's publication of The Haunted Tea-Cosy: A Dispirited and Distasteful Diversion for Christmas, Edward Gorey '50 told an interviewer from Newsday, "I wouldn't buy [the book] as a present, but then apparently they're hoping for lots of people to." While the interviewer interpreted this comment as intended "impishly," I could as easily believe that Gorey meant what he said. Until then, the little books that Gorey writes and illustrates had been reliable delights; The Haunted Tea-Cosy stands out as the least interesting of his work. The Headless Bust is the sequel...
...current arrangement with the ART, at its best moments, allows for the technical advice and professional experience otherwise not present at Harvard to improve the quality of the student performances we see. If the ART were to move away from the Loeb Drama Center, this would mean the Harvard drama community would need to find that many more people with the technical expertise to help keep performances looking their best. More performances on the large but expensive Mainstage, instead of the smaller venues, might also require an overhaul of the shows' finances...
...Roosevelt volume, which I've put aside. That book eliminates the narrative voice, the editorial voice, to an almost total extent. I wanted to see if I could write a biography of a President who lived between 1901 and 1909 in which there was absolutely no intrusion of the present. The reader gets the feeling from the first page to the last that they're back in the first decade of the century. So it couldn't be more different than the approach I took writing about Ronald Reagan. And the method I took with Ronald Reagan grew directly...
...present the recruiting process as the "career process" reflects...