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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...play has turned into some sort of zombie nightmare. The cast is laden with heavy black eye makeup, and characters such as Mrs. Foxhill (Rachel A. Stark ’11) shuffle around the stage, stare into the audience with vacant expressions, and speak in monotone. Sister Felicity (Hollie Zegman) even wipes down the floor with red water resembling blood as the action of the play continues on around her.The high-pitched and babyish voice Medina uses to portray Catherine is reminiscent of a bad horror movie, which only gets worse as Medina—hair slung in front...

Author: By Erika P. Pierson, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: 'Last Summer' Simply Horrifies | 11/10/2008 | See Source »

...early in the war. The child is unaware of the camp's function. He thinks it is some kind of farm. All he knows is that he has no friends and no worthwhile activities to divert him. He isn't even allowed to go to school; he and his sister are tutored at home by a Nazi functionary, while their mother (Vera Farmiga) ditheringly denies what she must know is taking place in the camp. Eventually Bruno wanders through the woods, encounters the barbed wire and Shmuel, an inmate of his own age. He wonders why the boy always wears...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Boy in the Striped Pajamas: A Failed Holocaust Fable | 11/7/2008 | See Source »

...Often there is an aesthetic to period performances, almost a white noise, where the emotions and practices of the period are not directly related to the performance.” Hargis said. “By reducing this white noise, or dissonance, through the interaction of the sister arts of musical and physical gestures, audiences can better understand the emotional message of Baroque music...

Author: By Marissa A. Glynias, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Hargis Broaches Baroque Opera | 11/7/2008 | See Source »

...show recently, where projects worth some $180 billion were announced. Yet Dubai is vulnerable. As the gulf's business, transportation and tourism hub, it is more entwined with the global economy than many of its neighbors. And Dubai never enjoyed the profits from oil and natural gas that enabled sister emirate Abu Dhabi to amass a vast financial cushion...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Doubting Dubai | 11/5/2008 | See Source »

...Dunham died between 3 and 4 a.m. Hawaii time, with Obama's half sister Maya Soetoro-Ng at her side. Media outlets reported that Obama learned of the death shortly after 8 a.m. today in Jacksonville...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Obama's Inspiration, His Grandmother, Dies at 86 | 11/3/2008 | See Source »

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