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...point, so we hope to bring some best times there and have some swimmers in the finals,” Mills said. “At the end of the season, of course, our goal is to win the Ivy Championship and ECAC Championships.” With the talent and commitment in place for Harvard this season, it looks like those lofty goals are certainly within reach...
...only those who are the oldest—its purpose was to pin point the specific skills which might be enhanced by musical training, Schlaug said. The longitudinal study examines whether playing a musical instrument enhances children’s abilities or simply serves as an indicator of natural talent. At the end of the longitudinal study, the researchers will pick out the children deemed “very skilled” in playing an instrument and analyze if there are markers that may have indicated natural ability. “My hope is that we can find evidence...
...with himself: self-loathing, self-destructive and self-sabotaging. Beautiful performances were often followed up by several lazy ones. Brando would blatantly goof off like a petulant child if he didn't get his way on set. And all the way, in his mind, Brando knew his talent was going to waste. As he grew crazier, and bigger, his myth grew bigger and crazier in kind. While Kanfer piles on the psychobabble early on, he eventually settles down and delivers a respectful and comprehensive, if not exactly groundbreaking, look at a truly mad genius...
...might seem to be one British blockbuster with a precarious future. Though a monstrous hit in London for the past 3 1/2 years, it is as intractably British as musicals come. Based on the 2000 movie about a boy from the coal country of northern England who discovers his talent for dance, the musical is rooted in a time and place that have little resonance for Americans: the coal miners' strike of 1984-85, provoked by the Conservative Thatcher government's efforts to dismantle the country's nationalized coal industry. For an American theatergoer in London, the accents are tough...
...oppressive place, and when his father and brother join their fellow miners in walking off the job, it becomes a tension-filled one. The story unfolds at a carefully unhurried pace: after a disastrous boxing lesson, Billy accidentally finds himself in a girls' ballet class. The teacher recognizes his talent, begins tutoring him in private and persuades him to try out for the Royal Ballet - all of which he must hide from his family and neighbors, who are in any case more consumed by a strike that has grown violent and increasingly doomed...