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...this kind of opportunity is perfect because it allows students to do real, relevant coursework with their professors while experiencing a different culture. And the timing of the trip allows students who need to make money over the summer, or students who have extracurricular commitments, to still get a quasi-international experience. If EPS can think up something like this, imagine the possibilities for other departments, if given enough support...
...R.S.C. has been equally innovative with Breaking the Silence, a quasi-biographical work that centers on Playwright Stephen Poliakoff s grandfather, a Russian Jewish aristocrat who refuses to accept the changes that Lenin's Soviet revolution have brought. Forced to live in near squalor on a railway carriage while assigned as a roving inspector, he stubbornly devotes all his energies to developing a talking motion picture. Although he is an untrained amateur, there are glints of genius in him. The play deftly balances his private quest against vast social change, and culminates in an agonizing exile from a homeland that...
...wasn't all intramural fun and games. The Film Department also organized public screenings of hard-core quasi-art. On one electrifying evening in 1972, critic Stuart Byron introduced Fred Halsted's dreamy, grainy, gay-sex LA Plays Itself, about which I rather coyly wrote, in Film Comment: "The cul-de-sac of narrative porn may well be the sadomasochistic fist-in-the-socket scene ... which one critic described as the most spectacular sequence since De Mille's parting of the Red Sea in The Ten Commandments." The crowd in the auditorium was respectful, if disconcerted (At the moment...
Recall Bring it On: rival cheerleaders, lots of energy, not much of a plot. Now, replace the cheerleading competition with céilí, a form of traditional Irish music. And instead of the squad leaders’ rivalry resulting from some quasi-racial socio-economic tensions, imagine the competitors are brothers, reunited after a thirty-year estrangement because they disapprove of each others’ life choices...
Though Emoh sounds distinctly different from his other recordings—even the quasi-solo tapes he released under the moniker Sentridoh in the late ’90s—it is very much a classic Barlow work, particularly when performed. In recorded form, the new disc’s sonic clarity is a clear contrast to the rest of his catalog’s muffled lo-fi recordings. Performed live, the sound is still very stripped-down, allowing the soft earnestness of the songs to shine through. Barlow even employed two microphones, one clean and one muffled, switching...