Word: vivants
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Parliamentary Speech and Debate Society. The South Asian Dance Company, and the Wireless Club took turns on stage while the Texas Club grilled up grub for passers-by and Fat Day, the only mobile band at Harvard, trooped around campus for four hours. Agitprop also organized several "tableaux vivant" of masterworks on the steps of Widener, including Raphael's "The School of Athens" and Rodin's "The Thinker" and "The Kiss." Plans for next year include "Playing With Space," a campus wide competition for the most "creative dorm room space utilization" (the winning bedrooms, bathrooms and closets will be photographed...
...organizer of ArtsFirst, a weekend- long and campus- wide celebration of HArvard's vibrant creative community that will take place from April 30 to May 2. ArtsFirst will feature over 85 performances in a wide variety of media, from theater to dance to film to music to a ableau vivant of Widener. (Free guides to the weekend's activitieswill soon be available in the Houses, campus arts centers, and Holyoke Center.)The Crimson recently caught up with Lithgow, and what follows are excerts of his comments about the program, and about his own artistic roots at Harvard...
...Bill Murray the actor were to be paid tribute by "Bill Murray," the unctuously impolite bon vivant familiar from Saturday Night Live and a dozen film comedies, the evening might go something like this...
Barnes professes to live a reclusive life with his wife in North London but counts among his close friends, novelist and bon vivant Martin Amis, Ian McEwan and the gregarious Jay McInerney. He admits to being a part of the chattering classes as the London literary-intelligentsia is known. His Oxbridge credentials serve as his passport to this class. He attended Magdalen College, Oxford where he says he was terribly bored...
...owned movies, TV, nightclubs, stage shows, and the singer had hit records (That's Amore, Memories Are Made of This) on the side. When they split up in 1956, he segued smoothly into leading-man roles. He Rat-Packed and six-packed, patenting the image of the blotto bon vivant. In 1964 he bumped the Beatles off the top of the charts with Everybody Loves Somebody, then wandered through his own hit variety show for nine seasons...