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...sure I like this line of reasoning because it means that I, who have spent countless hours in public parks, chess clubs and my library at home fighting for my (king's) life, would be stark raving mad by now. I suspect that I am not. I like to tell myself that I am in pretty sane company. The game certainly has its pantheon of upstanding citizens. While ambassador to France, Benjamin Franklin preferred to eschew the Paris opera for chess at the Caf? de la R?gence. (Excellent choice.) Napoleon played, although to judge by one of his games...
...more--have already started the job. Is it exploitative? Sure. But less so than the daytime shows that set up losers like pińatas for moralizing hosts to whack. Intervention simply lets addicts and their families--who are trying to get them into rehab--tell their own stories. Its stark, judge-for-yourself approach proves scarier and more edifying than Dr. Phil could ever be. --By James Poniewozik
...Tempest, being performed for the first time, makes fierce demands on listeners but rewards them with an opera of stark beauty. It may be presumptuous for any composer not named Verdi to set Shakespeare, but Eaton's music passes the test, honoring its source while illuminating and transforming...
When the lights first dimmed, the aptly-titled dance “Emergency” (choreographed by Jetta G. Martin ’05) hit the stage. Against a screen backdrop that urgently reflected a stark red light, maroon-sleeved dancers crowded the stage in movements that were alternately well-coordinate and disjointed. Whether or not the assumption and loss of uniformity was deliberate, the entire play proceeded and matched seamlessly the oblong and stacatta-driven notes of the soundtrack composition (written impressively by Patrick J. Bradley ’05). Although the dancers’ lack of coordination...
America was the first country to properly announce its intention and actually separate church and state. It takes this separation seriously, keeping prayer out of schools with near-religious fervor. This is in stark contrast to my South African public school, where I had been led in prayer often enough. Despite the religious diversity, I nevertheless would have preferred a school where I didn’t have to pray to whichever...