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Arnold Rosner’s writing in each act is strongly contrapuntal, metrically unpredictable, and idiomatically scored. The music is marked by constantly shifting colors, a strong sense of rhythm, and a healthy dose of lyricism.
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The New Rep production of Hair is acceptable: if the intent was to look back at a now-dated musical that once caused a stir.
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Among this group of strong animated shorts I found the French selection, Mémorable, to be the most powerful and artful.
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“The idea that slavery was not economically important to New England as a whole is just emphatically not true.”
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All in all, Color Out of Space is only OK.
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A critical look at this year’s Oscar-nominated documentary shorts.
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It’s hard to think of a contemporary poet who has engaged so passionately and devotedly, over many decades, with a single forebear.
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Overall, Light Blue is an impressive album: its ensembles simultaneously tight and graceful, its solos expressive.
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Where will the coven go from here? Its pivot away from patriarchy echoes the growing resistance of women the world over — and that is a powerful message indeed.
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YouTube Commentary: “李子柒 Liziqi” — Nature and Internet Celebrity in the Time of the Coronavirus
Not only do Lǐ Zǐqī’s videos offer us the satisfaction of seeing material labor, but they also suggest the impossibility — in the modern world — of genuinely recreating the work of the past.
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