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...performance was entertaining and carefully composed, successfully bringing the high art of opera to the Dunster dining hall.For its 15th anniversary, the DHO returned to “Così fan Tutte,” Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s and Lorenzo da Ponte’s 1790 tale of female infidelity and mistaken identity. While the opening Friday evening performance was cancelled at the last minute, leaving me with visions of directorial anguish, half-assembled sets, and missed cues, my fears were misplaced. Producers Lucy S. Mackinnon ’09 and Catherine E. Powell...
...tale of two halves is a telling...
...began last week with the arrest of a leading German executive on suspicion of tax evasion. Now Germany is enthralled by a tale of unbridled greed that offers as much drama as any Hollywood thriller could - but with possibly far greater political consequences. Prosecutors have said that further probes are under way into the tax affairs of hundreds of individuals suspected of funneling millions of euros into anonymous bank accounts in Liechtenstein under the radar of German tax authorities. The targets are thought to include some of Germany's wealthiest and most prominent citizens...
...growing up to do - and a lot more besides. The film also suffers from its flawed central plot device: that story the daddy tells his little girl. It's sanitized, of course - all sexual components cleansed - but even so it is discomfiting. It's a tale most fathers would resist telling a child - maybe even a fully grown one. And the actors have trouble with it. Reynolds can't help looking rather shifty as he relates his story and Breslin, who was so wonderful in Little Miss Sunshine, is obliged to play a standard-issue wise child, the kind...
...James H. O’Keefe ’09 and Samuel L. T. Walsh ’09 met at the Gay, Lesbian, Transgender, and Supporters Alliance’s Gay Gaymes in October and discovered love somewhere between the three-legged rage and balloon-stomp. Their fairy-tale romance—described as “Love, Actually” by O’Keefe and “Titus Andronicus” by Walsh—has been flourishing since then...