Word: transcends
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...allegedly coated it repeatedly with different blues and greens in multiple textures and directions. But at the end of the day, it’s just a big blue quadrangle with very little to offer outside of the story behind its creation. If a piece can’t transcend its parentage to succeed on its own merits, who needs...
Since becoming the editor of TIME in 2001, I've considered it a crucial part of TIME's mandate to cast its commanding spotlight on problems that transcend borders, whether they be disease, poverty, genocide or global warming. These are not topics that make for easy conversation at the dinner table, but it is a conversation we must have with one another if we are to leave our children--and their children--a world worth living...
...bands without outside help. “We’re planning a rip-off night,” says Sherrill, “where a Harvard band has to become another band for the night in terms of appearance, songs, everything. We hope that they will transcend ‘cover band’ and reach the state of ‘tribute act.’”These changes to the Cage are also grounded in a cohesive theory. “There needs to be a democratic process in which...
...Iglesia. Rare U.S. screenings Alex de la Iglesia’s best films—several of which are produced by Pedro Almodovar—an unknown, but virtuosic, European director whose dark comedies (such as last year’s “El Crimen Perfecto”) transcend genre and defy social convention. Brattle Theater. $9. Tickets available at theater or www.brattlefilm.org...
Hudson isn’t a bad actress—we’ll leave that to “Jill the Thrill”—but she does little to transcend the trite. In this film, acting deftness seems to increase with age. Rowlands as Violet Devereaux, the overbearing wife, is convincingly crazy and generally splendid. Hurt may not have many lines as the stroke-burdened husband, Ben Devereaux, but his haunting stare and stark showing of sickness are the scariest parts of the early minutes...