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...standards. They are “multi-layered, historically aware, and linguistically complicated,” writes Hilton Als in a recent profile of Parks in The New Yorker. “It took a good deal of time and effort to develop the right dynamic and tone for the show,” writes Renee M. Ragin ’10, who plays one of Hester’s children, Bully, as well as a welfare worker. The challenge of performing “In the Blood” was compounded by the fact that all the actors (with...
...liberal assumption is that friendly tone and conspiratorial wink that lets you know the other person is in on the joke (and she thinks you are too). You know, the joke—the fact that all smart people are liberal...
...latch onto an art-house fad that they don’t really understand, with results that feel forced. Periodically, for example, Harold’s wristwatch briefly becomes a character before disappearing again from the plot. This device does nothing to enhance the movie’s tone, and since there are no other cases of spontaneous anthropomorphism, it ends up becoming a cheap plot prop. Other points in the movie feature computer-generated modeling of Harold’s thoughts, but this technique, too, is used so rarely as to become superfluous. There’s so much...
...with many an anxious yell. When Dan Auerbach and Patrick Carney finally emerged, crowd noise reached its peak. Auerbach riffed his way colossally into “Thickfreakness,” the title track of their 2003 release, Carney beat furiously on his spare drum kit, and the tone was set for the rest of the night. Auerbach, if not a guitar god then surely a demi-god, let loose even more than on the band’s four full-length albums, taking the unchained punch of the band’s songs to a whole new level. Classic...
...Traditionally, the job of Defense Secretary goes to a person who sets a tone and policy atop the national defense structure while a deputy actually runs the building day-to-day. Rumsfeld tried to do both. Gates would fit the traditional pattern if he is confirmed...