Word: tower
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...exchange for the spice, this witch—played marvelously by Karol W. Malik ’08—forces Martinius to give up his firstborn, who grows up to be the sweet-voiced Rapunzel (Caroline A. Jennings ’09). Rapunzel is locked in a tower that can only be accessed by climbing her hair, a prince (Firth M. McEachern ’08) arrives and becomes determined to free her, and the rest is fairy-tale history...
...designer Juliette C. McClendon ’09 created a uniquely appealing staging for “Rapunzel.” The Adams House Pool Theater provided just the right venue for the performance, as the staircase descending from the main entrance made a perfect tower for Rapunzel. Since the tower was behind the theater’s seating and most of the action, the audience was often surrounded by actors harmonizing both behind and in front of them; every journey to Rapunzel’s tower took the characters straight through the crowd...
...similarities between the experiences of 9/11 survivors and victims of sexual abuse. After taking a moment to put herself in character, the sunny Tran emerged as the tough-talking Violet. Having described how she swiped a woman’s wallet in the express elevator just as the North Tower was struck, Violet drew a disconcerting comparison between herself and her sexual abusers. “All the shit I’ve been through. All those fat men my mom brought home. Want me to call them Daddy, then do me like no daddy ever should a girl. When...
...central role of narcissism plainly connects them. Only a narcissist could decide that his alienation should be underlined in the blood of strangers. The flamboyant nature of these crimes is like a neon sign pointing to the truth. Charles Whitman playing God in his Texas clock tower, James Huberty spraying lead in a California restaurant, Harris and Klebold in their theatrical trench coats--they're all stars in the cinema of their self-absorbed minds...
...Moscow. The Russian musical duo is teaching three master classes to the five undergraduate members of the Lowell House Society of Russian Bell Ringers. Their visit is the result of a long saga centered on the acquisition of the bells now in Lowell. The 18 bells in the tower originally hung in the Danilov Monastery, but were purchased by philanthropist Charles R. Crane and given to Harvard in 1930 to save them from the possibility of destruction under Stalinist rule. The bells are scheduled to return home to the Danilov Monastery during the summer of 2008, in exchange for replicas...