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Parfitt's final hunt for the ngoma, which dropped from sight in the 1940s, landed him in sometimes-hostile territory ("Bullets shattered the rear screen," of his car, he writes). Ark leads had guided him to Egypt, Ethiopia and even New Guinea, until one day last fall his clues led him to a storeroom of the Harare Museum of Human Science in Zimbabwe. There, amidst nesting mice, was an old drum with an uncharacteristic burnt-black bottom hole ("As if it had been used like a cannon," Parfitt notes), the remains of carrying rings on its corners; and a raised...
...Have you ever written for the silver screen? Is it something you want to explore further? CME: I have written some, but I haven’t had anything produced yet. I have done a lot of script readings but my background is more strongly in drama. [...] It is a form I am really fascinated by and it shares so many qualities with playwriting. Each form helps me to think in the other one. The tools you need for dramatic writing cross over between the media, but the actual media is very different. You have to think in images...
Another grievance I have with this year’s changes to the dining halls, although not directed at HUDS in general, is the presence of the flat-screen televisions. Whose brilliant idea was it to put the generously donated TV’s in their current—and utterly useless—position inside the serving areas? Oh, right. The Harvard College Consulting Group (HCCG). Come on, Harvard. Even PBHA got the memo and stopped using HCCG’s free consulting “services” and dished out money for some real help...
...professional. Turning the Dunster House dining hall, grand as it is, into a useable venue for opera is no small feat and the set designed by Thalassa G. Raasch ’09 is a success because its functionality makes the most of a challenging space. A backlit screen offers the opportunity for stage director Matthew M. Spellberg ’09 to display two locations to the audience at the same time. The one major set change is seamless as two large doors open to replace a living room with a garden landscape.The talented cast fills Raasch?...
...break from thesising late this January, I opened my web browser to The New York Times Web site and was greeted by chills running down my spine. Tucked away on the bottom-right corner of the screen, below headlines about flailing financial markets and the South Carolina primaries were the puzzling words: “Heath Ledger Found Dead...