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...technical mastery. The piece climaxed as several young flutists and drummers from local music and high schools marched through the hall to join Galway on stage. Galway then took up a tin whistle and led them out. The concerto ended in complete darkness. This piece could have been an utter disaster, but it succeeded thanks to Galway's charisma and stage presence...
...longer an organized society but a state of chaos. In the span of one week, what had begun as spontaneous revolts in a few southern cities turned all of the country into a Mad Max movie: children brandishing grenades and automatic rifles; wholesale looting; and frenetic, random gunfire--an utter collapse of civil authority. Foreign nationals were fleeing the country, many by helicopter airlift. Small, sun-washed Albania had become the state of Anarchia...
Therefore, the killing of a black child by a white driver was not an isolated incident in the lives of the black people in Brooklyn or anywhere else in America. Rather, it appeared to blacks as another example--based upon both history and direct experience--of the utter disdain and disrespect with which black lives are regarded in this country. Crown Heights did not happen over night. The black rage in response to the death of a child and the Jewish fear in response to the murder of a man were many years in the making. That fact does...
...that one word with just one syllable, "hi," is so hard to utter for much of the College's population? I can't count the number of times I have initiated contact with this little word and gotten no response. Even during the first months of my first year, when everyone is supposedly trying to meet people and be friendly, I was hard pressed to achieve eye contact. Now that's just...
...plot of "Star Wars": Yes, a moment's reflection will reveal many holes, and Lucas sometimes relies on shamelessly expositional dialogue. At times, I thought the entire movie was held together not by the Force, but rather by the utter ineptitude and poor marksmanship of the Storm Troopers. However, the plot of "Star Wars" is in fact what separates it from its imitators. Lucas creates an entire universe akin to Tolkien's Middle-Earth or even William Faulkner's Yoknapatawpha County. But unlike these two creators, Lucas builds his universe with broad strokes, providing a comprehensive visual and narrative world...