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...nominating committee called ART "the most vibrant and exciting theatre in New England today," Sabinson said, and praised ART director Robert S. Brustein for his "intellectual rigor" and the imaginativeness of the company's repertoire...
Even his passing, in 1969, came in the nick of time. The American architect Robert Venturi had just published his influential rejection of less-is-more Miesian modernism ("Less is a bore," Venturi punned), and younger colleagues were starting to grumble that the inspirational rigor of the International Style had turned to rigor mortis. Death spared Mies both from seeing any of the lush species of postmodernism and from the ignominy of a public rejection in 1985, when British authorities denied a die-hard Miesian builder permission to put up a high-rise that Mies had designed for the City...
...There's a camaraderie that develops somewhat like the army, but it's a positive experience," says Tangney, explaining that the participants develop "a pretty close core--especially among members of the can groups because they live together." For Tangney, both "the rigor of the content and the relationship of the people to each other" made the program special. Despite the rigor, the AMP was still fun because it created a setting where "people with real world experience were getting back into an academic setting," able to study how the business world should ideally work and compare it with knowledge...
Perhaps the only highlight of The Jewel of the Nile is that Kathleen Turner fans will have the opportunity to chart the progressive disintegration of Turner's Nino Cerrutti ensemble as she suffers through the rigor of desert living. For the rest of us, we'll just have to wait for the next dose of Romance, sure to arrive before we know...
...most successful aspect of Jagged Edge is the rigor with which it keeps us guessing. We are manipulated throughout the film in such a way that our uncertainty is kept tantalized until, literally, the last few seconds of the last scene. It is this reliance on mental, rather than physical, discomfort that allies Jagged Edge more closely with Hitchcock than with Halloween...