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...between O Tamaiti and Still Life, the serious filmmaker let down her hair in Velvet Dreams (1997), a playful documentary about the mid-20th century school of white painters who rendered dusky Pacific maidens on black velvet. Splicing interviews with anthropologists, art critics and a memorable Reverend Mua, who "rarely gets to meet topless women in his line of work," over a soundtrack of Hawaiian slide guitar and a fictional detective narrator, Urale wittily debunks the myth of flower-behind-the-ear Polynesian womanhood. Yet through her lens, she can see both sides of the beach. "The really neat thing...
...Explosion of bomb during address of the Reverend Edward Everett Hale in Sanders Theatre
After the story, which was greeted with familiar nods by the attentive audience, Reverend Mark D. W. Edington, Epps Fellow and Chaplain to Harvard College, spoke of the loss to the Harvard community, noting that Korsmeyer’s “quality of character was something that [Harvard] needed?...
Sunday, March 13. Handel & Haydn present Hogwood and Haydn. Featuring conductor laureate Christopher Hogwood and his new arrangement of Haydn’s Seven Last Words and readings by Reverend Peter J. Gomes. 8 p.m. Sanders Theater. $30-60, students...
Alternately celebrated as a filmic masterpiece and reviled as racist propaganda, The Birth of a Nation has forged its place in America’s cinematic, social, and political history. Originally titled The Clansman, after Reverend Thomas Dixon Jr.’s 1905 play on which the film is based, the film’s adopted title does little to hide its true subject, a three-hour epic of the Civil War, post-war Southern Reconstruction, and development of the Ku Klux Klan...