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...novel, “A Thousand Cuts.” Lelic has mastered the tropes of the police drama. The book follows an order predictable to any viewer of such programs: exposition followed by introduction of law enforcement officials, whose own battles are then interspersed with testimony. Each witness??s deposition is even separated into a new chapter, much in the same way that “Law and Order” introduces a new witness by calling up a new screen with a characteristic two-note segue...
...emphasis on blindness and seeing is on target; Sara, like the audience, is a witness??always emotionally interacting with the world she is watching. Reacting is human; when Ryan erupts and shouts “Judge me!” he is not only demanding but acknowledging the power of natural human behavior to utterly devastate. In Krasinski’s film, as in Wallace’s prose, no man or woman is left spared...
...person, or period, and setting the stage in their interest.”Co-sponsored by the Office of the President and Provost, the W.E.B. Du Bois Institute for African and African American Research, the American Repertory Theatre, and the Office for the Arts at Harvard, “Witness?? was held on the occasion of the 60th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. “[The event is] an opportunity for us to come together as a community in celebration, commemoration, and meditation, not a performance” A.R.T. director Gideon Lester said...
...crowd of nearly 400 last night in Memorial Church. Between the ages of 13 and 15, Burian spent time in Auschwitz-Birkenau, Mauthausen, and Gunskirchen, concentration camps in Poland and Austria. Burian told his story to the crowd to fulfill his personal responsibility “as a witness?? to history, he said. “I urge you to do your part, to participate in the liberation of the human race to whatever extent so the Holocaust shall never happen again,” he said. Burian’s granddaughter Daina S. Anhalt...
...Before Pring-Wilson’s testimony, the defense called character witnesses who vouched for the defendant’s “peaceful” reputation In the midst of one witness??s testimony, a power outage occurred, halting proceedings for an hour and trapping some people in the courthouse elevator. Proceedings resumed...