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...heard, which according to Nguyen is what happens as as boxer tightens up his stomach muscles to better handle the blows. At one point a spectator could be heard calling, "Haran, you're so sexy!" from the audience. Nguyen left the second round with a bloody nose but seemed upbeat about his performance...
...York City Ballet—is given to the Harvard undergraduate who has demonstrated exemplary artistry in the field of dance. Chin’s impressive dancing is matched only by her skillful balancing of schoolwork with artistic pursuits, all the while maintaining infectious optimism and an upbeat, casual attitude. “She has an incredible, positive, practical, energetic way of being,” remarks James C. Fuller ’10, former co-director of the Harvard Ballet Company (HBC) and one of Chin’s dance partners. “I don?...
...from those college years and beyond.An original rock musical written and composed by Zoe S. N. Sarnak ’09 and directed by Jordan A. Reddout ’10, “The Quad” explores the tumults of the college experience against a background of upbeat rock music and piano music. Although it is made by college students, performed by college students, and presented to a college audience, the play explores a series of universal themes: conformity, infidelity, loss and renewal of respect, inability to express emotions, loneliness, death, and love.The two-act play opens with...
...saying that nation “pays everything promptly”—and tension surrounding Kosovo, which declared independence from Serbia last year and is recognized as independent by major nations including Great Britain, France, and the United States, though not Serbia, Dinkic’s upbeat message pleased the lecture’s organizers. “We were happy to be able to sponsor someone with a message of proactive measures for the future,” said Ilyana M. Sawka, program coordinator of the Kennedy School’s Kokkalis Program, which runs initiatives...
...five-piece—whose eclectic oeuvre has been variously described as psychedelia and power pop—have always cast light and darkness about them with equal measure—never more so than on their 2003 magnum opus, “Phantom Power,” where upbeat, frenetic melodies and beats were counterbalanced by wistful lyrics. While its sound is characteristically SFA, “Dark Days/Light Years” is a break from this tradition of point-counterpoint; it is the closest SFA have ever come to genuine, unqualified happiness. The songs on this album revel...