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...Company” revival, “A Chorus Line” has preserved its retro sensibility. Director Bob Avian has banked on the show’s inherent gravitas—the poignancy of the meat-market image of dancers lined up for directorial scrutiny—to transcend time and place.Closer to home, the upcoming HRDC production of “A Chorus Line” is slated to open in a week on the Agassiz stage. The theater community will judge for itself whether director Peter C. Shields Jr. ’09 can make the dancers?...

Author: By Kyle L. K. Mcauley, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Notes on the Sound of New Music(als) | 10/19/2006 | See Source »

...President into book sales of 2.6 million copies for his memoir, My American Journey. Powell and Obama have another thing in common: they are black people who--like Tiger Woods, Oprah Winfrey and Michael Jordan--seem to have an iconic power over the American imagination because they transcend racial stereotypes. "It's all about gratitude," says essayist Shelby Steele, who frequently writes about the psychology of race. "White people are just thrilled when a prominent black person comes along and doesn't rub their noses in racial guilt. White people just go crazy over people like that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Fresh Face | 10/15/2006 | See Source »

...aged visitor to her husband, as the two sat in an in-gallery screening room, “Kids just sitting around smoking?” Only a handful of the 12 films have any discernible “plot,” but Lockhart’s films transcend this particular convention. The plots tend to be minimal—for example: “Boy waits for bus. Boy gets on bus,” or “Children begin lower down on the hill. Children finish further up on the hill.”The stillness...

Author: By Jeremy S. Singer-vine, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: A Dream of Rural Still Life | 9/28/2006 | See Source »

...field, Smith will need to scale a rock climbing wall, make it through a fireman’s obstacle course, and dazzle the judges in a swimsuit competition. It sounds a bit like a Village People casting call, but Smith sees the competition as an opportunity to transcend gay cliches. “I like the idea that I’m portraying a different image of the gay male to the general viewing public,” he says. “A lot of the contestants are more educated or career-oriented than the current stereotype...

Author: By Sachi A. Ezura, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Even Better than the Harvard Degree | 9/20/2006 | See Source »

...exactly representative of the rest of the department’s offerings. There’s more to chemistry than Life Science and arrow pushing, and there’s more to science than just chemistry—concentrating in chemistry will, ironically enough, make it easy to transcend both...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Chemistry | 9/14/2006 | See Source »

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