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Fortunately, the new kids on the block answered the call to arms with few signs of nervousness. The numbers on their backs may have been unfamiliar, but the backups for the most part looked right at home out on the field...
...biggest problem isn't getting people to come look at them--MOMA is counting on about 1.8 million visitors a year--but getting people to see them, to penetrate the haze of reproduction that turns icons into clichés. "It's the usual job of a curator to make unfamiliar things familiar," he says. "I want to take familiar things and make them strange again...
...stresses the importance of studying the work of great performers of every type, regardless of one’s own artistic specialization. He further emphasized this point last week by reminding students attending his talk to take notes on his advice and by telling them to look up any unfamiliar author, actor, or literary work mentioned in his talk. Marceau believes that no single art form is greater than any other, but, instead, any work of any kind of art must be deeply moving to its audience in order to have worth...
...those unfamiliar with elite high school football, the film is jarring to say the least. Though American society worships successful professional athletes, the cult following earned by these 17-year old high school seniors is, for the most part, less widespread. Director and co-writer Peter Berg rightly devotes more time to the Panthers’ trials in their daily lives—how they survive in the face of such intense scrutiny—than to their gridiron exploits to underscore that this isn’t just a game, but a profession...
Hillel’s noble effort at a welcoming ceremony is undercut each year by the cantor’s hijacking of the traditional tunes we know by heart. In their place, he substitutes unfamiliar and operatic renditions, ostensibly of the specific High Holiday melodies. Now, we’re the first to admit that our Hebrew is far from fluent: much of the Gates of Repentance prayerbook remains a mystery to us. We glance around quizzically at our more devout brethren during services—what is the thing when they bend their knees and bob their heads...