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...Knock ’em dead.” She walked to the door alone.While the board members listened to the Radcliffe dean make her case yesterday, a gaggle of reporters and Town Car chauffeurs congregated on Quincy Street in anxious and somewhat less anxious anticipation, respectively.Cuisine Chez Vous delivered sustenance to the board members through a side door, but an employee fended off questions about the meeting inside.“I can’t talk to anyone,” the caterer told a reporter while ferrying trays into Loeb. She confirmed only that she had been...
...Quincy St. is abuzz with preparations for the day's events. In the alley between Emerson Hall and Loeb House, Chez Vous catering is hard at work feeding the governing board members who are meeting in Loeb to confirm Faust as president. What are they eating...
...Bunuel’s surrealist shorts, Godard’s flawless “Breathless,” and Truffaut’s classic “The 400 Blows.” We hear the class is relatively painless, though it is taught in French. Parlez-vous anglais? Non! A new offering, FC 85, “Japan Pop: From Basho to Banana,” teaches anime and manga, alongside other eclectic elements of Japanese popular culture. FC 72, “Russian Culture from Revolution to Perestroika,” taught by well-liked professor Svetlana Boym...
...this up to frustrating intransigence, Pink Martini seems instead to be searching for reciprocity. The crispness of their songs is evidence of the joy they take in their music, but they expect their audience to contribute as well. It’s beautifully illustrated on “Dansez-Vous,” where a whispered chant of “dance, dance, dance” meets a simple statement of purpose...
...days. Seeing the show today, smiling at some jokes, groaning at others, you may ask, "It took that long?" This was a script built for laughs, not to last. It's less a Petronian satire than a Catskills burlesque, reveling in fake French ("Garcon, s'il vous plait, / Encore, Chevrolet coupe") and real Yiddish, as when French soldiers sing, "A vous toot dir veh, a vous?" and the nine Supreme Court justices declare, "We're the A.K.'s / Who give the O.K.'s" - A.K.'s meaning alterkockers. (For this lore I thank Alan Abrams, Time's Broadway-musical scholar...