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...that hardly matters. In Tunis, there are now entire new districts of office buildings, with signs announcing the recent arrival of multinationals like Pfizer, Ericsson and Siemens; in October Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer flew in to weigh new ventures in the country. Amid the pizza parlors, cappuccino bars and bowling alleys, realtors advertise million-dollar villas with pools and saunas, while shopping malls are jammed with Tunisians buying food and furniture imported from Europe. With the embrace of Western-style capitalism has come social change, too: the biggest TV hit this year was Star Academy Maghreb, a homegrown version...
...first movement, Goto effortlessly plucked left-hand pizzicatos and knocked off double-stops as if they were child’s play. The shorter second movement, reminiscent of opera, evoked a sense of tragedy. Where Goto’s violin used to be light, melancholy began to weigh down on the instrument.In the third movement—Allegro spirituoso—Goto leaped back into his element, holding the audience on edge with every twist of the bow. He employed Paganini’s own invention, “ricochet” bowing (where the bow ricochets across the strings...
...pace. The costumes, designed by Lucy W. Baird ’10, are nice but a little plain, as are the non-pool set pieces. In a show where everything is about a certain mood—a magical, lighthearted spiritual openness–anything that seems clunky can weigh down a scene. This clunkiness is noticeable every time a moment of overwrought choreography distracts from the scene, or whenever Zimmerman feels the need to pause and tell the audience exactly what it is that makes Ovid’s stories so good...
...spring waters—waters not yet warm in late May and early June, waters still chilled by the schizophrenic weather that marks racing season from beginning to end.It is perhaps the sports tradition most similar to dousing a coach with Gatorade after a huge victory, but few coaches weigh under 125 pounds and are flung with ease into the icy depths of Lake Quinsigamond. But coxswains won’t complain about that. Their job is endlessly stressful and rife, perhaps, with misplaced blame, but a sopping wet and shivering coxswain is apt to be a happy one.Why? Only...
...dodo was penned by an English diplomat named Thomas Herbert who sailed to Mauritius in 1629.Five years later, Herbert recounted, “Here only is generated the Dodo, which for shape and rareness may antagonise the Phoenix of Arabia: her body is round and fat, few weigh lesse then fifty pound, are reputed of more for wonder then for food, greasie stomackes may seeke after them, but to the delicate, they are offensive and of no nourishment,” according to Clara Pinto-Correia’s book “Return of the Crazy Bird...