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...have recoiled at the thought of augmenting this Gothic Goliath. But for many of us, the idea of restoring our venerable building to the glory and stature it once knew is a welcome one. The missing tower was a sign that Mem Hall was somehow unfinished; the rebuilding project is a nice symbolic and aesthetic move to complete the structure...
...have recoiled at the thought of augmenting this Gothic Goliath. But for many of us, the idea of restoring our venerable building to the glory and stature it once knew is a welcome one. The missing tower was a sign that Mem Hall was somehow unfinished; the rebuilding project is a nice symbolic and aesthetic move to complete the structure...
...again when I recently saw it on videotape, especially during the final scene, when Kevin Costner finally gets to play catch with his long-dead father. Watching this, I felt like the subject of an Oliver Sacks case study: I wanted to laugh derisively, of course, but the film somehow circumvented the part of my brain that controls critical judgment and beamed directly into the blubber lobe. My tears were compulsive, reflexive, the way I imagine tears to be for women when they watch female weepies like An Affair to Remember, in which Deborah Kerr can't meet Cary Grant...
...greatest importance, and everything above or below it is terra incognita. The population of this tiny kingdom consists solely of 18 to 22-year-olds. It has no gross national product; it knows no war or famine or natural disasters. Every year the kingdom banishes its eldest citizens, yet somehow manages to survive from generation to generation. How strange this all is, and how much like Paradise it seems! You taste the bitter fruit of Knowledge, and four years later you're expelled from the garden forever...
...apart from each other. Throughout the piece were sections of movement that had flexed feet and rigid, straight arms, something not usually seen in ballet. In general, the piece had clean, straight lines. Classic movements would stop in midmovement, and instead of being completed as expected, would somehow change. One particularly playful moment had male dancers lifting their partners into the wings and throwing them as the audience gasped, only for her to be caught by another dancer in the wing...