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MUSIC | The Ying QuartetThe highly regarded Ying Quartet (Timothy and Janet Ying, violins, Phillip Ying, viola, David Ying, cello) continue their stint as Blodgett Artists in Residence. They will play five pieces on the theme of wandering: Turina’s Oracion del Torero; Villa-Lobos’ Quartet No. 6; D’Rivera’s Village Street Quartet; Ginastera’s Quartet No. 1; Piazzola’s Tango for 4. Presented by the Houghton Library of the Harvard College Library. Tickets available at the Harvard Box Office $20, $10 for students. 8 p.m. Harvard Epworth...
...Ichise can take much of the credit for this breakthrough. Returning to Japan in 1997 after a stint in Hollywood, he discovered a clique of talented young directors, including Ringu's Hideo Nakata and Ju-on's Takashi Shimizu, absorbed with making straight-to-video ghost stories. Working with budgets of about $10,000 per one-hour segment forced Asian horror's avant-gardists to rely on suspense instead of special effects. "With horror, bigger budgets don't necessarily mean better movies," says Ichise. "This group was making terrifying stuff on a shoestring. The Asian horror-movie boom that everybody...
...Carbens had sent John to countless counseling sessions, two weeks of psychiatric observation at a local hospital and another stint in an outpatient therapeutic program. He was found to have bipolar disorder and was prescribed lithium, but he took the drug only sporadically. Desperate, the Carbens made the wrenching decision to send their son someplace that could impose the discipline they had been unable to give him at home. Mary found Spring Creek in a Google search for military schools. She and Randy were impressed by the "40 referrals" from ecstatic parents that the school sent them. "I didn...
...happened since then. One summer out of college and one year out of her stint as Undergraduate Council president, she landed a top job in the nation’s capital and has since won over the establishment...
...European idioms he encountered after emigrating to France when he was 10. A native of Oran, a culturally rich northwestern port city, Taha came of age displaced from his Algerian roots but without being accepted by French society either. In 1980, after a series of drudge jobs, including a stint in a heater factory, Taha hooked up with a quartet - three of whom were fellow ethnic Arabs - in a Lyons suburb and formed Carte de Séjour (Green Card). Though the band's gritty garage sound and defiant Arabic lyrics about racism, immigration and social injustice...