Word: sixteen
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...costume and set design also majestically frame this scene. Unfortunately, this act also includes Carla Stalling's failure as the Queen to both act and dance, and the repetition of odd, graceless flittery arm choreography by the court fairies. By the end of act one, the youthful and energetic sixteen year old Aurora has pricked her finger on Casabosse's poisoned spindle in a beautiful pastoral garden scene while dancing with four foreign princes. The Lilac Fairy saves her by putting a spell on the castle and everyone within its walls falls into a deep sleep...
...missed is Jacob Jordaens's amusing genre scene of a corpulent "Married With Children" type family entitled As the Old Ones Sing, So the Young Ones Pipe (1640-45). Also impressive are Van Dyck's stately, sweeping Portrait of the Marchesa Elena Grimaldi, and the massive, sixteen-foot Boar Hunt by Frans Snyders...
...fight for free speech. By the end of the movie the Federal Communications Commission has been sent in to stop the show. As if painting the school's administrators as automatons enforcing social pressure on teenagers is not enough, the writer brings in the Feds to rein-force the "Sixteen Candles' meets 1984" theme of the film...
...sixteen first-year dorms, both within the Yard walls and near the Union, were slated for overhauls. The price tag was considerable--according to FAS Director of Planning and Senior Development Officer Phillip J. Parsons, the total estimate for the project runs between $60 and $70 million, if everything goes fairly well...
...youth and energy also seem to be characteristic of this year's softball team--ten out of the sixteen players are rookies or sophomores...