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Bennett and Leader-Picone took more open stances regarding what qualifies as Black Art, noting that expressions of black identity can reveal a variety of different cultural and social experiences. However, the two made a point of honoring Baraka’s opinions and his contributions to the movement...
...living in Berlin at the time so my editor flew in and took Middlesex off of my desk and back to America,” Eugenides recounted. “I tend to doubt my work a lot. I’m always reading it through for flow and messing with it again. It’s not the most effective way, but I enjoy writing that way… I wrote ten openings for “Middlesex” before finding the right one. That was eight hundred to a thousand pages in the trash...
...took a year off from college and spent it in Calcutta working with Mother Teresa. I’ve tried to write about it for 20 years and I’m now doing it. I’m having such difficulty. The passage just gets shorter and shorter—maybe it will disappear altogether. It’s just so hard to write about yourself—easier to imagine another life because then everything has equal weight. This is why I don’t trust memoirs—I believe they need fictionalizing to write...
...hard to please the masses with a standard fantasy epic plot and sprinklings of cheesy dialogue. Compared to his off-beat earlier works, this film definitely lacks the artistic risk-taking that makes for a quality film. Much like the “Avatar” sensation that took the nation by storm but whose plot rang a little too close to that of Pocahontas, “Alice in Wonderland” works its magic with eye-popping animation but falls short of achieving any kind of substantive originality or psychological stimulation...
...minor, featured the HRO concerto competition winner and internationally distinguished pianist Kenric Tam ’12. With the orchestra’s bold opening and the emergence of the lyrical second theme, beautifully introduced by flautist Irineo C. Cabreros ’13, Tam took to the stage with breathtaking expression. Though the orchestra’s complementation of his performance was not perfect at times, Tam displayed a uniquely sensitive and heart wrenching interpretation of Chopin’s first piano concerto. Especially striking during the second movement, Tam’s phrasing evoked a tender fragility that...