Word: projects
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Sociology 10 project, Guerette looked at the role that dating plays in Harvard students' lives as compared to students at Boston University...
...turns out, Mother Nature has won again, as the choice of insects has evolved from Norfleet's earlier works. Norfleet comments that "Animals have always sneaked into my photographs. A project on a colorful bachelor emphasized his dog; one on the hidden upper class resulted in boxes of horse pictures...." And, as she continues, "My desire to seek color, humor, beauty, to never forget skies, to record wrongs, made insects a natural choice for the present project...
Directed by visiting artist Diane Paulus of the Project 400 Theater Group, a New York-based theater company whose stated mission is to redefine what people think theater is, King Kong is a show that is as challenging as it is engaging. Loosely based on Richard Wagner's 1848 opera Lohengrin, which in turn was based on a German version of an Arthurian legend, Paulus's multimedia production tells the story of the virtuous knight Lohengrin and his efforts to save and marry Elsa, a princess unjustly accused of murder...
...good Star Wars fan knows the story of how George Lucas was turned down by countless studios before he was able to convince 20th Century Fox to take on what was, by almost all accounts, an outrageous project. And who could blame all those cautious studio executives who passed on the chance to produce what would become the highest grossing movie the world had ever seen...
Lucas had little going for him. When he started looking for a studio to back his Star Wars project, he was a fledgling director with only two other movies under his belt--a dismal and poorly received artsy sci-fi film called THX 1138 and American Graffiti, a well-made but less than awe-inspiring look at teenage life. Plus, the cast he was assembling for his latest project was made up largely of actors (mostly from TV) who had yet to make it big. And many more who never would. And then there was the story--a heroic epic...