Word: soft
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Unfortunately, the new Broadway production is an ice crystal gone a little soft at the edges. Courtenay, a veteran British stage performer probably best known here for his film roles (The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner; Dr. Zhivago), offers a Vanya of precise but wistful enunciations, interspersed with moments of careening grandeur. But the rest of the cast is weak. Gerry Bamman overacts as the bankrupt landowner Telyegin. Amanda Donohoe (formerly of L.A. Law) looks lovely as the irresistible beauty Yelena but fails to wring any pathos from her realization that in life she has "always played a minor...
...with Degas. The results fill one gallery of the Met's show, and they are works of distinction: a drawing like Marynka Smoking, 1980, is an homage to Degas's bathers that hits a fine balance between the energy of the black bounding line-wiry, emphatic-and the crusty soft bloom of light on the model's back and buttocks. Kitaj is a greedy, sexy draftsman, even when he is not drawing women. And his prehensile take on the world through drawing gives his fantasies and allegories a strength that no mere montage of photographic quotation could supply...
Wrinkled women in kerchiefs and Reeboks sort through communion cards and candlesticks. Choir and clergy robes of every color, reminiscent of Harvard's multihued commencement gowns, sway as soft rock filters past the statues of the Madonna...
...screen unit with a keyboard that plugs into a normal telephone wall outlet to connect users with a wide variety of information services. Minitel is now a familiar object in many French homes, partly because of its reputation -- deserved -- as a commercial conduit for suppliers of both hard and soft porn. Despite that sleaze factor, Minitel set the standard during the 1980s as the world's first truly practical and inexpensive provider of interactive services for a mass market. It was, and is, the VW Beetle of the information...
...least among those in touch with the culinary aspects of Harvard life. Currier House, long disparaged as the lowliest of houses, the Quaddest of the Quad, has recently acquired a frozen yogurt machine, sparking fits of jealousy among low-fat fanatics as well as less cal-conscious fans of soft desserts. Currier residents, like the first family on the block to get a color TV or a '57 Chevy, jump at any opportunity to express their pride. Chris Baker '96 goes so far as to predict that application to Currier house will experience a "drastic change" this year...