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Fuse News Film Review: “Something in the Air” — Radicalism Redux

May 12, 2013
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Assayas’s splendid autobiographical feature is about a young man who refuses to turn his back on the radicalism of the ’60s

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Book Review: The Fine-Spun Harmonic Furies of William Gass’s “Middle C”

May 12, 2013
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Despite “Middle C”’s relative cheeriness, the novel passes a tough sentence on the human race, so uncompromising that its protagonist has a hard time writing it down.

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Fuse News Review: Terry Gross’s Thrice-Told Tales

May 11, 2013
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What has NPR’s Terry Gross learned after all these years of probing famous people’s psyches? “We are all mortal. Life is short, and for some life is full of pain.”

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Fuse News Theater Review: Lord of the Flies, A-levels version

May 11, 2013
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The Zeitgeist Stage Company provocatively lives up to its name by taking audiences into the netherworld of horrific violence via a powerful production of Simon Stephens’ drama “Punk Rock.”

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Music Review: The Boston Pops does “Fantasia”

May 11, 2013
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In the end, the technological snafu probably did more than the musical selections themselves to prove that listening to symphonic music ‘live’ is not a stuffy affair.

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Visual Arts: The New Rijksmuseum — A Revelation

May 10, 2013
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Respect for the building and its makers, respect for the historical study of art, respect for the visitor’s relation to the displays. These are qualities that I find in the New Rijksmuseum and missed in the old one.

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Theater News: Richard Foreman’s Bewitching Box of the Unconscious

May 9, 2013
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Something emotional (perhaps even passionate) whirls underneath the well-worn modernist pieties of “Old-Fashioned Prostitutes,” though not to the point of disrupting the daffy routine.

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Book Review: A Compelling Look at the Life of Poet John Keats

May 9, 2013
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There is a steadiness about Nicholas Roe’s writing that is deceptive; the life in the Life does not jump off the page, but it accumulates during the reading so that something of what it felt like to be around John Keats remains, as things do when truly experienced.

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Fuse News Film Appreciation: Farewell, Master Animator — The Divine Legacy of Ray Harryhausen

May 8, 2013
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With the passing of animator Ray Harryhausen, we would do well to remember when wonder was more … wondrous.

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Book Review: Vital, Phenomenal — Novelist Anthony Marra’s debut

May 8, 2013
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“A Constellation of Vital Phenomena” is spectacular.

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