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...pure crunch time," he says...
Deep below the city streets, Water Tunnel Three, one of the largest construction projects in American history, will bring pure water from upstate New York to Manhattan. What city planners didn't count on was that the water tunnel project would also bring together the Mafia and the Irish Mob of Hell's Kitchen in a plot to eradicate the unions and increase the bottom line...
Next came a sharp and jumpy cadenza in which the high notes were never less than pure. Previn had decided to make the last section sound like an alla breve version of the first, made jazzier by the inclusion of a piano part. By the time Hudgins finished negotiating all the difficult figures, he had earned himself three curtain calls...
...were going into it thinking it would be a turning point," said Harvard senior Christa Calagione.. "I'm very disappointed, but I don't think that we didn't give it our best. It's just pure numbers, and that's what all of our games have been like...
Probably all three. He cites the non-narrative, almost abstract films he made as a student at the University of Southern California 30 years ago as touchstones for the kinds of films he'd really like to make--pure cinema--and plans to make once he's done with what he calls "this theatrical thing" or "this theatrical immersion." That's a reference to his 25-year career as a commercial filmmaker, which he makes sound as if it were merely a phase he's going through, like a teenage girl shoplifting nail polish. Some phase: after writing and directing...