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Indeed the result was quite spectacular. Technically, the play was a sensory splendor--most arresting on the visual plane, but pleasing to more senses than just the eyes. What is immediately apparent is the role of inanimacy in this production, the unspoken heroics of sound and lightning, although purists might have viewed this aesthetic exhibition as more of a reliance than a means to an end. Admittedly, the very hipness of the event did at times seem incongruous with the apparent simultaneous desire for austerity, which is difficult to completely discount with Marlowe's text and the Faust legend...

Author: By Teri Wang, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Faustus Takes a Turn for the Darker | 11/5/1999 | See Source »

...Italian stage actress Eleanora Duse, whose portrait ran on the July 30, 1923, issue. The cover story, a little over one column long (not unusual in those days), noted, "She preferred to make entrances unnoticed in the crowd, suddenly to step forward and carry the play away with the splendor of her fervor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Patrick Smith's Mailbag | 11/1/1999 | See Source »

...dining halls' attempts to do just that: Eliot House, where institution and residence meet, but don't interact; Currier, where something is lost in the institution's translation of "residence"; Quincy, where the two dance a strange tango; and Mather, where comfort and efficiency unite in Masonic lodge-like splendor...

Author: By Ankur N. Ghosh, | Title: Chew With Your Eyes Open: Crimson Arts Examines the Aesthetics of Harvard's Dining Halls | 10/29/1999 | See Source »

Most of those who argue for the importance of fashion as art restrict their attention to the highest echelon of couture, judging value by such indications as the ingenuity of construction, level of detail, perfection of drape and splendor of textile. Such features may be exhibited as easily on a museum mannequin as on a living person; the animating spirit is the genius of the designer. But for Hollander, while she admires seminal figures like Chanel and St. Laurent, the couturier is a minor figure...

Author: By Annie Bourneuf, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Seriously Fashionable | 10/8/1999 | See Source »

...family who lives most in the moment, as we are told in poems to do--to gather rosebuds while we may and treasure the hour of splendor in the grass and prove the pleasures that this brief summer yields. Hers is the age of sheer delight, and among her dog pals and wading pools and her books and my risotto, she is gathering rosebuds left and right...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Rice, the Bat, the Baby | 9/6/1999 | See Source »

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