Word: slight
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...worry, though. With our handy Harvard Student's Holiday Card Checklist, you won't forget anyone you can't afford to slight...
...measure the movie's theme, the very unknowability of truth. Kurosawa's film has become so associated with this notion that the word "rashomon" has passed into the language, and is used to describe a situation in which the truth cannot be known. This notion of truth is a slight and hackneyed one. That Kurosawa was able to create "Rashomon" from this is a testament to his mastery and genius; it is a case of a film rising above its material. "Rashomon" is an example of a very cinematic film, one in which the camera is an active participant...
...with obvious distaste the new boy being introduced around. "Barrett?" he sneered in lieu of a handshake. "You're no Barrett." He was offended that this kid of obviously Semitic stock had the temerity to filch a surname from the old sod. Stuck for a rebuttal, I swallowed the slight. Even now, 35 years later, a good answer eludes me. But to my father, who had decreed the new family name, it seemed like a good idea at the time...
...formerly nonmusical Roundabout is also the aegis for A Grand Night for Singing, which opens this week. In its original incarnation as a black-tie cabaret act at New York City's Rainbow & Stars, it was pleasant, often witty and inventive, but slight. Adding a modicum of costumes and choreography can go only so far in making it fill a bigger stage. "Maybe the number of revivals this season is just a coincidence," says Haimes, "but I hope it's a harking back to the virtues of musicals in their heyday." Worryingly for that hope, She Loves Me is showing...
...Wendt Terrace is still untouched. A bowl of apples and bananas sits spotless on a kitchen counter. Unfortunately, like many homes in a town proud of its rustic flavor, Pattengill's is made of wood. Within minutes, his tennis shoes can be heard trudging the roof, accompanied by a slight hiss of water. Then he comes down again. "There's hardly any water pressure," he laments, a fact that has been hampering official fire fighters all day. Outside on his patio, an ember alights on a flower and incinerates it. The phone rings. It's his wife. "Yeah," he says...