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...Many schools have extensive course offerings in artistic areas, such as drama and the visual arts, but Harvard is not one of them. When Dramatic Arts 10, Harvard’s beginning acting class, had its first session on Sept. 19, about 60 students showed up to audition for one of the 16 spaces in the class. The audition pieces, by Anton Chekhov and Arthur Miller, were not easy monologues to delve into, especially for someone with no theater experience. Although it was nominally a beginning-level class, the students auditioning for the class included many who had performed lead...
...Spectator, meanwhile, leads today's paper with a critical new development: Video shot by Univision, the Spanish-language network, clearly shows a man on stage kicking a protestor. That throws a bit of a wrench into the current outcry, since there has yet to emerge any visual documentation of kicking or punching on the part of protestors. Comments the Blue and White blog: "You don't have to speak the Spanish for footage of Minutemen kicking protesters to change how you look at things." Of course, the brawl was still provoked by the protestors who stormed the stage. The kicker...
...Vista with high-resolution graphics and lots of animations, conveying a dynamic, in-motion feel. Every window has a translucent border. Alongside the main screen runs the Sidebar, a panel of little helper applications called gadgets, among them a news reader, a calculator and a currency converter. A key visual highlight is the window flipper: with a click, your open windows form a single-file line and parade past for your review...
...divide the news calendar into BF and AF-Before Fox and After Fox. Much of what you see on TV news exists because of Fox, and not just the opinion shows. The graphics, the sound effects, the general tone of news is set by Fox. The zipper-the visual signature of the anxious too-much-information era-was first introduced by Fox on the morning of 9/11. First by moments, but in TV news, moments are everything. As with so many things, Fox was slightly quicker than its rivals to detect, and direct, the next crank of the dial...
...voices in American cinema. FROM THE BRATTLE TO THE BIG SCREEN“I could never have made the films I’ve been making if not for the background I had at Harvard,” Bujalski, a former Currier House resident, says. He refers to the Visual and Environmental Studies (VES) Department’s emphasis on the basics—how to run the camera, how to run the sound, how to edit on a flatbed—as indispensable. “They really make it clear that that’s all you need...