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...Could Be Sweet” was disarmingly beautiful, sinister in its power to alternately engage and enslave the listener. When the group announced their long awaited follow-up to 1997’s “Portishead” late last year, they already had a serious reputation to live up to.So how did Gibbons, Geoff Barrow, and Adrian Utley try to return to the heights they reached in 1994? By annihilating them and starting all over again. Fans of the group will be listening intently for any trace of “Dummy?...
...Wick notes that the strength of the writers made it easier to mentor them during the collaboration process. “I didn’t have to do that much because we have such talented writers,” she says. From tongue-in-cheek farce to more serious fare, “Sketches!!” promises to provide a unique blend of theater and writing at Harvard...
...learned to produce short stage plays of their own creation. With four middle schools participating in the program this year, the youth group will perform four 20-minute plays. Ranging from comedy to action—and tackling themes such as superhero morality—these shows feature some serious professional work with a fair share of depth. According to Philip A. Petrou ’09, the vice president of the program, the goal of Kidshow! is to “instill a sense of appreciation” for the arts, especially in “schools that have...
...read, even the nice ones,” Franzen said. “The most upsetting thing nowadays is the feeling that there’s no one out there responding intelligently to the text,” he said. “So few people are actually doing serious criticism. It’s so snarky, it’s so ad hominum, it’s so black and white.” “The stupidest person in New York City is currently the lead reviewer of fiction for the New York Times...
...Used sparingly, the words "God bless America" would have to be taken as a serious theological proposition. Instead, like Nike's "Just Do It" or any other ubiquitous catchphrase in American culture, the words eventually lose their meaning. Today, "God bless America" has become the Pennsylvania Avenue equivalent to the taglines of Madison Avenue...