Word: timelessly
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Think your family’s messed-up? Tennessee Williams’s “Cat on a Hot Tin Roof,” a timeless story about a wealthy plantation family who gather to celebrate the birthday of their patriarch and compete for inheritance rights, will put your clan to shame at the Loeb Experimental Theatre, starting tonight. The Roving Reporter sat down with the cast to rake through the Southern underbelly of the production.Benjamin T. Clark ’09 RR: So who do you play?BC: I play Big Daddy.RR: Does the Adam Sandler film...
...Sylphide,” also began the Boston Ballet’s 2007-2008 season at the Wang Theatre. Due to its brevity, the piece was paired with and preceded by Balanchine’s groundbreaking “Serenade.” With its simple elegance and timeless plot, “Serenade” was, of the two pieces, the true gem, outshining “La Sylphide” in its choreography (by Sorella Englund after August Bournonville) and performance...
...timeless Scotland, “La Sylphide” tells the story of beautiful ideals and possible heartbreak. James (Carlos Molina) and Effie (Melissa Hough), Scottish peasants, are about to be married. But on the day of the wedding, a beautiful, silvery sprite (Erica Cornejo)—the titular “sylph”—appears. She has a strange power over James that brings out his yearning and love, but every time he tries to touch her, she vanishes. When the sylph appears as they are about to take their wedding vows, James follows...
...debate the film’s blatant concerns, including “Will Dan ever find love again?” But despite the overabundance of eye-rolling moments, the film still delivers plenty of honest and funny family scenes. The story may not be original, but it is timeless, and several surprising examples of wit and tenderness may prove more enduring than some of its sale-bin predecessors. Though not the sweep-you-off-your feet tale Binoche is searching for, “Dan in Real Life” is, as Carell states at the very beginning...
...lifetime, learning that transmits the heritage of millennia; learning that shapes the future. A university looks both backwards and forwards in ways that must—that even ought to—conflict with a public’s immediate concerns or demands. Universities make commitments to the timeless, and these investments have yields we cannot predict and often cannot measure. Universities are stewards of living tradition – in Widener and Houghton and our 88 other libraries, in the Fogg and the Peabody, in our departments of classics, of history and of literature. We are uncomfortable with efforts...