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...sheer diversity of the acts on Saturday afternoon embodied what Ghungroo is all about, and this diversity also shed some light on the traditions and current trends of the culture that tied the festival together. Ranging from dance and music to poetry and comedy, the acts spanned a broad spectrum of cultures and movements from the Indian subcontinent and diaspora, and made a lovely juxtaposition of the ancient and the modern. The skits that ran in between acts, while partly existing to allow time to set up equipment behind the curtain, served an important purpose in themselves by using humor...
...terms of sheer numbers, she was huge,” captain Catherine Sproul said. “She kind of had a breakout game...
...pictures onto a backdrop of the stage, adding a unique and sometimes ironic touch (such irony was truly exemplified when a picture of Senator Joseph McCarthy was flashed during one scene). The choreography was similarly imaginative and especially noteworthy in one scene in which Cunegonde was tied to six sheer ribbons. Throughout the work, the combination of bright lights, ladies carried on the shoulders of men, and the large chorus strongly drew on the Moulin Rouge aesthetic...
...interest, he says, and TheFacebook has met with most of them. The casual nature of the investor meetings makes it easy for Zuckerberg to go out for lunch, or to a concert, with or without the intention of accepting money. He enjoys the meetings, he says, out of sheer curiosity. But over the summer, when TheFacebook fell $50 to $60,000 in debt, investors and business strategies became hot topics for the team, and the meetings carried more weight...
SOLIDIFYING THE BUSINESS If sheer numbers can ward off the competition, then TheFacebook and its populist strategy have the chance to stay on top for a long time. But that all depends, of course, whether the boys behind the operation stick around...