Word: spirited
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...rather of temper and temperament. The question exploded last week in newspaper stories, most notably a blazing Sunday editorial in his hometown paper, the Arizona Republic, damning McCain as a bully, sarcastic and insulting. His personal story, in this view, becomes his burden, with the suggestion that the fighting spirit that allowed him to resist his North Vietnamese captors has left him muscle-bound, not quite nimble enough to cajole and convince and compromise in complicated times...
...always facing the problem of how to convey the essence of the story--it's almost impossible to be completely faithful and retain the spirit of the story. But something about the film strikes at the essence of the novel...
...that raucous spirit that we see a series of modifications: The Crawfords, Austen's villains, are noticeably less distasteful and quite unabashedly sexual; in general, characters are more unguardedly flirtatious, witticisms a little sharper, plot changes less subtle; and crowning it all is the "sex scene". The infidelity discovered via implication in a letter in Austens novel becomes a visual, shocking debacle in the film, quite in character with the brash nature of the adaptation. Amazingly, the director has planned her story in a way that makes this acceptable by keeping with her more open, admittedly "extreme" tone throughout...
...evolved into a more intricate step-dance. One dancer, Karin Alexander '02, says that "the story of the gumboot fits into the wonderful, though pain-ridden, history of our continent. The dance expresses all of that and is like a fabulous interactive way to share part of the African spirit." Indeed, the gumboot dancers, who meet for two-hour rehearsals every Monday night, reach out to the Harvard community as a whole. Both the troupe of dancers and their audiences include individuals who are not of African descent. Alexander, who is from Zimbabwe, had led the gumboot troupe...
...that life is such a big gift and we should live it 100%. We should always keep our humor--it is the manifestation of life. We need to keep the humor and our identity and memory, our culture and people, and we need to open our arms and spirit to other people. That train, for me, is all of humanity. We are starting from a specific segment of humanity, but all the problems they have are the same ones we all have. We all have the same problems...