Word: societyã
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...cartoon in which Elmer Fudd sings, “Kill the wabbit!” to the rune of Wagner. In this take on opera, large-breasted women dressed in Viking helmets sing for hours on end about being German, just like a good Romanticist should. The Early Music Society??s production of Dido and Aeneas by Henry Purcell presents an alternative vision: the opera is short, Baroque and in English. Moreover, stage director John Driscoll ’00 has updated the story to modern times, doing away with traditional costumes and set pieces...
...described Maus as a an “extraordinarily post-modernist work” and said that Spiegelman has a rare ability to understand society??s problems...
...mind off of the topic, bringing the movie from the level of extremely impressive to extremely unfulfilling. If Stettner can learn to focus his message as well as he focuses his action, and continues to find such strong acting talent and to use film as a vehicle for illuminating society??s ills, we can expect the emergence of an significant Hollywood force. The Business of Strangers, like its director and writer, is not quite there yet, but Stettner’s next film could...
...Palestinian leadership must be willing to look deep into its society??s culture and values and be ready to condemn those aspects that are antithetical to a potential peace with Israel. Saying that the Jews are the Palestinians’ cousins while continuing to teach Palestinian children that those cousins are treacherous and disloyal will only continue to deter a true peace between the two peoples. Palestinian youths must be taught that anti-Semitism is immoral, and Palestinian leaders have a responsibility to address their society??s flaws rather than simply blaming others...
...with. It might work if it were tongue-in-cheek, or alternatively the work of the Red Hot Chili Peppers, but these boys-and-a-girl have neither the humor nor the sex appeal to carry it off. And then it only gets worse. “The Great Society?? sounds like Pink Floyd if you stole their sense of irony, humor, musicianship and possibly hearing as well: “Space has eaten up your face / You won’t need it anyway.” At their best, on “Wings of Light...