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...which dancers threw themselves into their moves with attitude and precision. These not only provided a remedy to my exhaustion, but they also included the highest levels of coordination. The vitality of the performances would have been much more forceful had the numbers followed each other at a rapid pace. “Bassline” proved that in planning as well as rhythm, timing is everything...
...Since the early eighties, I have noticed what I feel is a very rapid decline in the quality of the humanities as they’re taught in the Ivy League universities,” she says...
...when the Rolling Stones weren’t four fossils in leather pants with titles in the peerage and three-digit ticket prices. In “Stoned,” Stephen Wooley’s directorial debut, he recounts the hedonistic early days of the Stones and the rapid rise and precipitous fall of founding member and guitarist Brian Jones, played by Leo Gregory (“Green Street Hooligans?...
...when the play jumps to a scene several months after Dr. Knock’s arrival, the futuristic set design transforms the space of the Mainstage from the previous flat, low lines to a mass-scale laboratory. The increased complexity of the set dramatically adds to the feel of rapid modernization that pervades the play, and represents a truly impressive technical feat on the part of set designers Burkle and Grace C. Laubacher...
...This is a familiar pattern. In the late 19th century, the rapid risers were Germany, Japan and the U.S. itself. Though oceans apart, they embarked on similar careers. The first step was national unification. In Japan, the Meiji Restoration consolidated fragmented, feudal power into a technocratic and imperial state. In Germany, Bismarck fused 25 kingdoms and duchies into the Second Reich. In the U.S., the Civil War ended with the Union restored. Step two was rampant economic growth, with all three overtaking the established powers in the production of iron, steel and energy?those industries that would soon yield guns...