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This is theater at its most superficial. There is no coherent message or even mood behind Valdina's piece. It's a shame, because the efforts of the actors are obscured within this shallow fluff, as are Valdina's fine talent for dialogue and musical composition. Ultimately, Jordan Valdina's "As Breath in the Wind" is about as satisfying as watching MTV for an hour and a half. Something new happens every minute, and yes, each new effect attempts to be provocative and disturbing, but there's no common vision to unite all the fragments. At the end, little stands...
Many students deride these survey courses as "cocktail party courses," implying that their only purpose is to give a thumbnail, Cliff Notes version of the particular subject. The charge is valid. It is important to have more than a shallow understanding of important subjects--but you have to start somewhere...
...poetic rendering of a devout wish but certainly not an authentic record. Crossan, who is co-chairman of the seminar with Funk, argues it this way: since the Crucifixion was conducted by Roman soldiers, he reckons, Jesus' body was most likely left on the Cross or tossed into a shallow grave to be eaten by scavenger dogs, crows or other wild beasts. As for Jesus' family and followers, depicted in the Bible as conducting a decent burial of the body according to Jewish law, "as far as I can see, they ran,'' Crossan says. "They lost their nerve, though...
PRINT AND TV JOURNALISM DON'T usually mix well. Print journalists snipe that TV is shallow and addicted to sizzle, while TV journalists scoff that print is slow and ponderous. Here at Time Inc., however, detente has been declared, thanks largely to Joe Quinlan and George Kindel, executive producer and senior producer of The News Exchange, the company's TV-production unit. Our most recent peace dividend can be seen on April 5, when the Discovery Channel will air CyberSpace, a one-hour special filmed in collaboration with the TIME journalists who prepared the cyberspace issue published in mid-March...
...contact is with students whose ability to work and learn at Harvard is impaired by the inappropriate and harmful actions of those who occupy positions of trust. I imagine they and their peers can "trust their instincts" in deciding how to take Lat's snide and shallow column. Virginia Mackay-Smith Assistant Dean for Coeducation