Word: tedium
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Before Guy Laliberte's Cirque Du Soleil rose 20 years ago, the big top had degenerated into a tedium of cliches: Bozo-like clown acts, dancing bears in dresses and men with whips sticking their coiffed heads into lions' mouths. Laliberte changed all that, building a new, animal-free circus prototype that emphasized heart-tingling theatricality, New Age sensibilities and jaw-dropping athleticism. Then his troupe invaded Las Vegas, bringing imaginative original productions to the land of showgirls and Elvis impersonators. Today, Laliberte's 3,000-strong company juggles nine spectacular shows: five that tour the globe and four resident...
...March, allowing me a sneak peek into an earthly paradise of blue water, pristine beaches and wet t-shirt contests. I always thought to myself that maybe, just maybe, someday I would be cool enough and old enough to take part in that. I could tolerate the everyday tedium of high school because in the back of my mind I knew that I would one day be in college and on spring break. And, if the stars aligned properly, I just might find myself in a Jerry Springer-moderated, televised whipped-cream-eating contest with a girl from Florida State...
...percent of all students expect to receive A grades). But I simply cannot sit in silence when Freinberg claims that section participation is superfluous or that final exams are designed to prompt wholesale regurgitation of professors’ and TFs’ ideas. I cannot begin to describe the tedium of reading dozens of identical exam essays, all of them cribbed from a professor’s lecture notes; nor can I begin to describe the elation I feel at finding that rarest of student papers that takes the time to unpack a subject and find something...
...popcorn I’m buying when Hollywood pulls out the big guns. Based on the really killer trailer, I’ve got some high hopes for zombie-filled remake Dawn of the Dead, which will hopefully maintain the satirist attitude of the original while avoiding the general tedium of last year’s 28 Days Later. Kill Bill: Volume Two is supposed to be more Tarantino than the first one, though at this point, I’d be pretty content just to see Bill killed. There’s also some small part...
...best film in the Hitchcock canon is sometimes overshadowed by its more influential siblings Psycho and Vertigo. But the story of quadriplegic Jeff Jeffries (James Stewart) and his tedium-induced mission to uncover the possible murder of a neighboring tenant is a gripping exercise in guilty-pleasure voyeurism and paranoid tension. Part of the Harvard Film Archive’s “Frames of Mind” series. Tickets $6. 7 p.m. Harvard Film Archive...