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Alert the Squid Squad! The kraken is (lamely) on the loose!
(Articles/Books)
... Miéville’s follow-up to that breakthrough, alas, is an exercise in apocalyptic excess titled Kraken (yes, “kraken” as in Liam Neeson thundering, “Release the Kraken!” in Clash of the Titans). It’s a ...
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Beethoven’s ‘Harp’ stands out in second chamber fest concert
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... approach that emphasizes drama and sonic effect, and in its inner movements trades a placid slow movement for a searing exercise in sustained, intense emotion, and swaps a minuet for a ferocious minor-major ...
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‘Savor’ offers useful perspective for weight control
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... with fruits or vegetables at each meal. They stress the importance of regular exercise, calling it “about as close to a magic potion as you can get.” Not surprisingly, they note the negative impact of ...
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The View From Home 4: New releases on DVD
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... last year if more critics had seen it. The latest playful exercise from the always unhinged Werner Herzog, Bad Lieutenant shares its name with a 1992 masterpiece by Abel Ferrera, but it’s not so much ...
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Scorsese visits ‘Shutter Island’ with campy, B-movie flair
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... the loopy, melodramatic Shutter Island. On the other hand, if you insist on clarity and loose ends neatly tied, this will only be an exercise in frustration for you. Put me firmly in the former camp. ...
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Violinist O’Connor to play genre-busting recital in Wellington
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... new O'Connor Violin Method books, which will grow to a series of 10 beginner-to-advanced volumes. Distributed by Shar Music, each features sequenced tunes and exercises; theory, history and ear training, ...
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‘Up in the Air’ is the year’s smartest movie
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... Ryan has not only adjusted to his emotional pain-inflicting career, rationalizing that he is eliminating jobs with empathy, but he thrives on the increasingly annoying exercise of maneuvering through ...
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Brice, greed and graphic novels: A trio of theater reviews
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... diminishing the emotional stakes, turning the play into too much of a cerebral exercise, though still intriguing. Like Madoff’s victims, Cholerton threw financial caution to the wind in selecting a ...
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‘2012’ a wretched exercise in disaster porn
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Director Roland Emmerich is expert at conditioning his audiences to delight in human suffering. A purveyor of the most soulless brand of disaster porn, Emmerich’s lowbrow forte is the special-effect-hemorrhaging ...
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GableStage’s ‘reasons’ mines white-hot emotions
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Neil LaBute’s reasons to be pretty, with which he made his overdue Broadway debut last season, is considered more gentle than his usual exercises in the gender wars. Maybe so, but you would never know ...
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Cellist deMaine to play all Beethoven’s cello works in two Boca concerts
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... and you can glimpse the greatness that's to come. "And with the variations, it's twofold: It's an experiment, to see what the possibilities are between cello and piano, and also [they are] a great exercise ...
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‘Two Jews’ a deep, comic standout at Florida Stage
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... That exercise, by some convoluted logic, will allow an Afghani woman to convert to Judaism and bring the religion one step closer to living on. Uh, just go along with it, it will be worth it. For ...
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Cast, audience deserve better than limp ‘Love Is Love’
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... original Annie), Shelly Burch (featured in the original cast of Nine) and Avery Sommers (Ain’t Misbehavin’, Show Boat), it is an underwhelming exercise which cannot generate enough excitement to sustain ...
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In semi-darkness, a good recital of Schumann and Tchaikovsky
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... clean aesthetic served this well-wrought piece of Hausmusik admirably, and she made good distinctions between the moods of the variations. The Abegg Variations calls for a lot of exercise-style passagework, ...
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Armory's summer camp show spotlights kids' creativity
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... gestural, displaying a confident and casual attitude. One of the most interesting exercises was called the Modern Art History Pizza Project. Innovative instructor ...
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‘Mamma Mia!’ is a hit – and a miss
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... rules of tidy construction? OK, so this feel-good exercise in energetic escapism gets no point for neatness. Its songs by the bass-heavy, disco-beat Swedish rock group ABBA fit clumsily into a silly ...
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Chamber fest opens with engaging voyage of discovery
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... with the furiant. The third movement, a slow-but-pulsing exercise in harmonic tension and motifs rather than tunes, is therefore harder to bring off, and here again things were played too forcefully, ...
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Organist Unger offers strong, diverse recital
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... from the Second Symphony of Andre Fleury. That piece, a kind of perpetual-motion exercise, demonstrated Unger's ability to play an almost continual line of rising and falling scales throughout the piece ...
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Show of new work bids affectionate farewell to Klein space
(Articles/Dance)
... the ladies show off not only the demanding choreography, but also their own considerable abilities in extreme exercises, gymnastics, relay racing and partnering. Ollarvide, in the post-performance discussion, ...