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...forming an understanding of much of humanity. In addition to stories, he wrote poetry, an extended history of Chinese literature and hundreds of essays, including small masterpieces like his eloquent 1926 tirade against the warlord government of the time for gunning down unarmed patriotic student protesters. His stories are wide-ranging in style and subject, from the touchingly nostalgic and straightforward "My Old Home" (a poignant look at the gulf that grows over time between two Chinese villagers of different classes) to the fiercely polemical, stylistically experimental "Diary of a Madman" (which offers a crushing indictment of the stultifying effects...
...cheer about. The Blind Side - the true-life sports movie about a determined white woman and her adopted black son - finally overtook the vampires and werewolves of The Twilight Saga: New Moon at the North American wickets, according to studio estimates. And none of the three debut films in wide release could earn even half of what The Blind Side did. The only movie to spark hopes of box-office gelt and Oscar gold, Up in the Air, opened in limited release. (Read "The Blind Side: What's All the Cheering About...
Next weekend The Princess and the Frog opens wide, in the august company of Clint Eastwood's Invictus, Peter Jackson's The Lovely Bones and the pre-acclaimed indie drama A Single Man. If there's not a new No. 1 title then - if The Blind Side and New Moon don't finally make way for the new kids at the box office - it will be time for Hollywood to unsheathe its harakiri swords...
...Intensive emerged as a collaboration between the Office for the Arts (OFA), the Harvard-Radcliffe Dramatic Club (HRDC) and the A.R.T. Institute, the graduate-level educational program offered by the A.R.T. The Intensive will offer a wide range of classes, workshops, and discussions intended to introduce students to the kind of training provided by graduate school programs. Alongside the class component of the program, some of the undergraduates participating in the January Intensive will also be involved in the A.R.T. Institute’s production of Tennessee Williams’ “Stairs to the Roof...
Hofstra has turned out a number of NFL players, including New Orleans wide receiver Marques Colston and former New York Jets receiver Wayne Chrebet...