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...small desk and dirty bed—looks as though it was furnished for a live audience watching the opening scene of a play. Even with Towne’s substantial creativity, “Ask the Dust” would have crashed and burned without the solid performances of Hayek and Farrell. The fairly simple plot needs the acting heavyweights to add depth of emotion to the tale. Hayek is at her best, depicting a woman strongly connected with her native culture in a society that condemns it. She creates an innocent, yet sexually attuned character who delivers lines...
...Merritt listeners, they won’t do much that previous Magnetic Fields albums haven’t done already and better (or 6ths albums, or Future Bible Heroes albums, or any of Merritt’s other projects), but “Showtunes” is still a solid collection of music. If nothing else, it serves to remind us of the theatricality that has always been present in Merritt’s work. The canonical “69 Love Songs” was first inspired, after all, by Merritt’s own love of musical theater...
Amidst complaining how “Tierney seems to long for the day when American history courses line up in the catalog in neatly marked packages,” Ulrich also related an anecdote about students visiting from Beijing University. They had a solid command of hard facts, but did not have a sturdy understanding of how those historical events came to pass. “The Chinese students,” Prof. Ulrich avers, “wanted to know how ordinary people got their ideas about liberty...
...poise,” Brown said. “I’m not sure if his stuff was really there [on Friday]. He has a very good pitcher’s makeup. He didn’t get flustered.”Senior Lance Salsgiver led a solid Crimson attack with five hits and two walks in twelve plate appearances. Brown and senior Josh Klimkiewicz hit the sole Crimson home runs of the weekend in Friday’s loss. The next stop on Harvard’s annual whirlwind March tour is Old Westbury, N.Y., where the team...
...country, but only forward Crystal Connors could find a seam past Boe and hit the back of the net. “What I am most impressed about was that we were determined to go after the net, we were a threat in the offensive zone, we had solid defense and great goaltending,” said Harvard coach Katey Stone after the game. “A solid collective effort.” And in the offensive zone, junior Liza Solley had one of the best games of her career—considering the performance...