Word: varma
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...intimate warmth of the basement, three different groups quietly waited for what was supposed to be a short period of time as the stage was set up. After just over half an hour, the delayed show finally began with the one-man band, Avi Varma...
Under red-lights more typical of Amsterdam than Cambridge, Avi Varma accompanied by his acoustic guitar and harmonica, performed several songs—or, perhaps more accurately put, a couple variations of the same song. The limited range of notes and identical beat of each song made the Amerherst College student’s performance the musical equivalent of an Ec10 lecture— exciting material made monotonous and boring...
...part, Varma mumbled indecipherable lyrics followed by multiple “ladadada’s,” making one of his few comprehensible lines (“I sound like what’s-his-name”) the most painfully ironic moment of his unmemorable performance...
...discovering yourself as you make the films," he says. "And it's difficult to be objective." Adoor is a cinematic throwback, an auteur who controls every major aspect of his films: writing, directing, producing, editing. Before filming he shares his scripts only with his longtime cinematographer, Ravi Varma, the sole person aside from Adoor to provide genuine creative input in an Adoor Gopalakrishnan movie. "The actors should be free," he says, "but not so free as to go against my interpretation of the role...
...Charles James, the recently appointed head of the Justice Department's antitrust division. (In a Senate hearing last week, Justice also disputed charges that it was politically motivated in its attempts to settle the $20 billion lawsuit against the tobacco industry, another big Republican contributor.) Microsoft spokesman Vivek Varma called the charges unfair and pointed out that competitors such as Sun Microsystems and Oracle, which have cheered Justice on, are also big political contributors...