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With this sage advice in mind, I trekked over to 14 Plympton Street and listened to members of various boards give their spiels before deciding on Sports, mostly because the chairs at the time seemed like—as the expression goes—“pretty chill dudes...
Musically, the production makes occasional use of the vocal talents of Stewart N. Kramer ’12, whose powerful voice opens the show with a rousing, half-drunk chorus of “Vive la Compagnie.” He also briefly appears as a sage street performer singing for his supper. For its many scene transitions, the show too-frequently utilizes the Johnny Cash song “God’s Gonna Cut You Down,” a catchy, yet repetitive tune which rather abruptly jerks the listener out of eighteenth-century France and into...
...Speak Because I Can,” British singer-songwriter Laura Marling issues a careful admonition to those who wish to grow up too quickly. “You deal with God far too young / Before you know it, your life has run away,” the sage 20-year-old cautions, seemingly wistful of her own life’s rapid passing. But after listening to Marling’s latest album, one may end up hoping that, in fact, her musical career has just begun. A gratifying sophomore release from the precocious folk-rock talent...
...comedy The Trouble With Harry. Playing a bohemian painter, when that occupation could seem a gentleman's calling, Forsythe is surrounded by a trio of Vermont eccentrics, all of whom believe they may have killed Harry. Forsythe, naturally, is the cave of common sense they retreat to for sage advice ("You're not supposed to bury bodies whenever you find them - it makes people suspicious") and comfort (he woos and wins the young Shirley MacLaine, in her film debut). Hitchcock called on Forsythe twice in the '60s, as a man accused of murder in the 1962 TV drama...
Like Steinberg’s only other work of fiction, “As a Driven Leaf”—in which he constructs a life for Elisha ben Abuyah, the Talmud’s own sage and heretic, out of short Talmudic stories about him and some healthy creative license—“The Prophet’s Wife” uses an intriguing traditional character as the starting point for a meditation on the religious experience. For the protagonist of “As a Driven Leaf,” the conundrum is whether...