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...pretend this doesn’t excite you). Science article aficionado John S. Liu ’11, for one, agrees: “Friday, Saturday night, I can’t go to the library, but the Internet’s always on!” Word...
What comes to mind when you hear the word “Hollywood”? Whether the first image is a struggling actor with three day jobs or Lindsay Lohan with three DUIs, Harvard probably doesn’t enter the picture. Although Harvard grads run four of the five biggest media conglomerates—Sony (Michael M. Lynton ’82), Viacom (Sumner M. Redstone ’44), Warner Brothers (Harvard Business School graduate Alan F. Horn), and NBC Universal (Jeff A. Zucker ’86)—the movie capital of the West Coast...
...Rent” meets “Wicked” in “Fable Attraction,” a spin-off of traditional fairy tales ranging from Humpty Dumpty to Cinderella. With a savvy balance of pop-culture references, word play, and Harvard humor, the constant jokes in nearly every line and lyric might seem a little excessive at first, but they keep the audience engaged until the curtain falls and leave it wanting more. Before the show even begins, the title “Fable Attraction” begins the onslaught of comedy. The curtains open, a colorful...
...death, as she dances with his limp form. It’s as if her spirit dies at the sight of Romeo, and the knife is just an afterthought. The visceral nature of “Romeo and Juliet,” it turns out, transcends the spoken word and can be effectively expressed through the art of dance. While the dancing often falls subject to the narrative, especially in the expository first act, the expressive quality of both the gothic and modern sets, the swelling, cinematic score, and Cranko’s choreography effectively revamp an age-old story...
Colorado State University (CSU) is known for natural beauty, proximity to ski resorts, and a blazing four-word editorial published by the school paper last fall, attacking the President with an expletive. But if CSU’s president gets his way, the university could be known as the school that sold its newspaper to a national corporation against the will of its students, its alumni, and journalism professors nationwide...