Word: victorian
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Party Like It's 1899. Sixteen of New York City's top-rated restaurants, including Per Se, Adour and Chanterelle, will serve multicourse Victorian banquets of each chef's interpretation, from January to March 2009, and donate some of the proceeds to charity. Café des Artistes will recreate the dinner you may have drooled over in the film Babette's Feast, while French seafood restaurant Le Bernadin will do all things de la mer, complete with top hats, candles, and "the rich sauces of the day," says chef Eric Ripert. Check the Zagat Guide's website for dates, menus...
...offset these outdated limitations, BlackCast has reworked the script’s basic structure and implemented gender- and race-blind casting. “Too often directors are too strict in their interpretation of the play,” Coles says. “If it is set in Victorian England, the play would be all 20 white men and women, and that is not representative of theater at Harvard.” But through a dramatic change in temporal setting—the play is set in the late 50s and early 60s instead of the 20s?...
...Conservatory faculty member Daniel McCusker, opened the night. The curtain parted to reveal a dimly lit stage dotted with dancers in an array of form-fitting shades, from subdued violet to loud magenta hues. First swaying in unison to composer Guy Klucevsek’s quirky, contemporary take on Victorian parlor music, the dancers soon moved into standard dance formations that were enlivened by energetic jumps and elegant attitude turns that landed in generous lunges. McCusker’s choreography settled well into the nooks and crannies of Klucevsek’s music as dancers shifted their motions to match...
...just no place like home.The Harvard sailing team returned to the Charles River last weekend with one goal—to qualify for this month’s ACC Championships. Both the women’s and co-ed teams did much more than that, winning the Victorian Coffee Urn and Erwin Schell Trophy respectively, to end the regular fall season on a high note. “This weekend was really exciting for both the co-eds and the women. I was really, really excited for the co-eds and it was great that both teams did so well...
...15th. Their best finish was also second place, but three disqualifications proved to be too much to come back from.Boston College dominated the event, finishing nearly 50 points ahead of its nearest competitor. The women will also look to claim an ACC berth this coming weekend at the Victorian Coffee Urn, which will also be the final home regatta of Watson’s impressive career. “Four women’s teams have already qualified, so we just need to be one of the next three,” Watson said. “The Charles River...