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...piano break in “My Lady’s House”, the EP evokes a sense of organic composition so rarely found in this age of overproduction and electronic precision. Empty space is masterfully balanced with patches of soulful melody and percussive touch. The march-like dulcimer tones in “Jezebel” and the down-home fiddle playing in “Gray Stables” provide a crowning dose of texture.Packed with biblical references, graceful metaphors and subtle word puzzles...
...that a photographer had captured the event until FM appeared in the door of the Currier Ten-Man—a door which is now plastered with the picture along with the caption “The Rise and Fall of Clay Hubbard Kaminsky,” an extra touch from his roommates...
...creativity of the visual effects complemented the rest of the show. A projector splashed various pictures onto a backdrop of the stage, adding a unique and sometimes ironic touch (such irony was truly exemplified when a picture of Senator Joseph McCarthy was flashed during one scene). The choreography was similarly imaginative and especially noteworthy in one scene in which Cunegonde was tied to six sheer ribbons. Throughout the work, the combination of bright lights, ladies carried on the shoulders of men, and the large chorus strongly drew on the Moulin Rouge aesthetic...
...site, part of the “Harvard At Home” initiative to help far-flung graduates keep in touch with campus events, contains several lengthy passages that are lifted verbatim from other sources without any attribution. The site includes a 69-word section on Swiss mathematician Leonhard Euler that is identical to an article in the computerized encyclopedia Microsoft Encarta, as well as a 46-word passage on Euler that appears to have been copied straight from Encyclopedia Britannica. The site also published a 65-word passage that previously appeared verbatim in a 1997 law review article...
...George Cukor directs with his usual quiet mastery. Those lusciously long takes remind viewers that star quality, not editing, is the essence of classic Hollywood cinema. The DVD has some cool extras, including Hepburn's 1993 documentary self-portrait All About Me and a fine study of the Cukor touch by TIME's Richard Schickel. A rare treat is two radio plays of The Philadelphia Story, also with Hepburn, Grant and Stewart...