Word: theming
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Rome plans ANCIENT ROME theme park. Get ready for Crucifixion Cove...
...sure how you can take seriously a play whose comic coup de théâtre (it gets uproarious laughter) is a scene of projectile vomiting. But it's typical of Reza's quest for easy laughs at the expense of her superficially serious theme: the familiar one that civilized upper-middle-class people are really barbarians underneath. The unsavory revelations that emerge during the play's one long scene (e.g., one dad secretly got rid of his kid's pet hamster by turning it loose on the street) are mere contrivances played simply for laughs; I get more insights...
Over five hundred walkers came together on Saturday for the Sixth Annual Walk for Haiti, successfully raising over $40,000 dollars for Harvard-affiliated international healthcare organization Partners in Health (PIH), according to Karen Fritsche, the walk’s co-founder. This year’s theme was “Housing for Haiti,” as 100 percent of the funds will be used to rebuild homes in Haiti, where land and infrastructure were devastated by two hurricanes last summer, Fritsche said. She estimated the three-mile walk along the Charles River raised enough money to build...
Cerny, a proud provocateur, recently won some notoriety with a prankish sculpture at the European Union headquarters in Brussels mocking European stereotypes - the giant piece depicts France as a strike placard, Romania as a vampire theme park, the Netherlands as a submerged set of mosques and Bulgaria as a squat toilet. But even Cerny is happy that Obama is visiting. "It's a miracle that he is paying us a visit, after all," he says. "Well, he could have gone to Brussels...
...Hazards of Love” is best enjoyed as the sum of its parts, but its individual peaks are manifold. With its creative mix of styles, “Annan Water” is multifaceted enough to be able to fit eloquently into the overall theme and still function effectively as a self-contained statement. As the rhythmic bellows of the accordion and the acoustic guitar in the verse suddenly stop to make way for a chorus of singers accompanied by organ, the song gains a sense of completion and cohesion that some of the other tracks lack. It ends...