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Last night in the ARCO Forum people from all parts of the effort to end slavery participated in a panel discussion intended to inspire the audience to take action, according to panelist Jesse Sage '98, the associate director of Boston-based American Anti-Slavery Group...
...sage said, dying is easy, filmmaking is hard. But everyone was so serious on Crouching Tiger because Lee, who made his reputation with adult dramas of manners like The Wedding Banquet and Sense and Sensibility, had a child inside screaming to get out. He wanted to pay homage to his lifelong ardor for martial-arts novels and pictures. He had made beautiful films; now he would bend his considerable artistry to make, dammit, a movie. The sad story has a happy ending. All that agony has produced exactly what Lee hoped to create--a blending of Eastern physical dexterity...
Benhabib received her Ph.D. in philosophy from Yale and taught there between 1977 and 1979. She is currently on sabbatical at the Russell Sage Foundation, a social science research institute in New York...
...FAST FORWARD TO THANKSGIVING 1972. Back in New York for the holiday my freshman year in college, I go see the New Riders of the Purple Sage - sort of a rockin'-country adjunct to the Grateful Dead - at the Academy of Music. Perhaps my proximity to the mirror ball overhead clouds my judgment, but it is my distinct impression that my skull has been imploded by the virtuoso performance of Buddy Cage, the Riders' pedal steel player. Cage is the real deal, a country veteran who played on Anne Murray's first five albums; in contrast, the Dead's Jerry...
...said he remembered walking next door to Sage's last winter, when his back problems kept him from walking long distances. Now, the nearest grocery store is the Broadway Market--a 15-minute walk away, he said...