Author: Vlad Lodoaba You'd think that people learn something from the experience of banging their head really hard against a wall, but that doesn't seem to be the case with Steven Spielberg. His "A.I." was a crash-and-burn movie, mainly because of its unjustified length and the soporific attempts at ...
Author: Erika Mercer "If I try to forget something, that's when I end up remembering it."Pete Yorn's recent release, "Day I Forgot," puts this statement to music. It is the snapshot memory that is indelibly marked on your consciousness, the image or scene from long ago that recurs in your mind. Perhaps ...
Author: Lanford Beard At this particular moment in pop history, we seem to have transcended pre-fabrication. One too-soon-to-tell, pre-pre-fab success story is Kelly Clarkson, who earned her fame courtesy of a nationally televised talent contest in which she formed a musical persona before releasing ...
Author: Laura Rockefeller On Saturday afternoon I wandered happily into the Hepburn Zoo Theater and was surprised and delighted to find coffee and a delectable assortment of cookies laid out on a table next to the entrance. I poured myself a much-needed cup of java with plenty of sugar and quickly claimed ...
Author: Edward Pickering John le CarrÈ cuts a patrician figure in the world of spy writing. He has been in the game for a long time - since 1974, in fact, when "Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy" topped bestseller charts across the globe. The novel, the first in a trilogy, is simply sensational. Le CarrÈ, ...
Author: Pascale LaFountain "We would just like to note that no birth control was used in this performance." Although Richard Lutjens' '03 statement was shocking, it was in no way out of line given the themes of the German Department's play about sexuality and relationships in 1900 Vienna and today. ...
Author: Erika Mercer Picture a tawny desert floor, a bare sweep of never-ending dust and dirt. Above it all, a pervasive stretch of sky, a boundless expanse of blueness. Solitary bushes withhold the scorching heat, standing stagnant, determined, caked with dust. Somewhere, a scorpion scuttles hastily ...
Author: Laura Rockefeller This weekend in Seeler Studio Theater, five extraordinary women re-examined their experiences of friendship, passion, heartbreak, betrayal and hope in the first of this semester's two faculty directed shows, "Taken in Marriage."The play, directed by Professor of Theater Douglas ...
Author: Edward Pickering Elspeth Huxley's "The Flame Trees of Thika: Memories of an African Childhood" brings to mind a book previously reviewed in this column, "My Family and Other Animals" by Gerald Durrell. In content and sensibility, the two books mirror one another. For readers looking for nonfiction ...
Author: Richard Lawless It's a safe assumption that most students at Middlebury College view their time here as an excellent opportunity to expand their horizons. The College's radio station, WRMC, which resides at 91.1 FM on your radio dial, uses this same credo through its promotion of unheard music, ...
Author: Alexandra Hay On Thursday and Friday evenings, a devoted Francophile audience filed into the McCullough Social Space for the presentation of the French circle's play, "Fantasio." As the play was performed entirely in French, spectators were mostly limited to French professors, students and exchange ...
Author: Lanford Beard Something old: Pajama Game.Something new: Hairspray, the Musical.Something borrowed: Countless Broadway favorites.Something blue: An enchanting and scandalous lighting design.This could have been the theme for this year's annual music students' cabaret, but instead it was "Once-a-Year ...
Author: Erich Kahner The Otter Nonsense Players hosted the First Annual Clown Parade last weekend at Middlebury College. Improvisational comedy groups from six colleges, along with four professional improv comics and one adult group, participated in the two-day comedy festival.The event coordinators, ...
Author: Suzanne Mozes In a culmination of their senior work, Ami Formica '03 and Alaina Buckland '03 performed "Lilly and May," written by Patricia Cornelius, strove to accomplish quite a lot this past weekend in the Hepburn Zoo. Originally, the two seniors planned on directing themselves in a collage ...
Author: Erika Mercer Since its beginnings in 1949 in a dilapidated "Chicken House" at 14 Adirondack, WRMC has made major strides in defining, developing and bolstering its role within the Middlebury College community. Still, as recent poll results prove, fewer than half of current students tune in to ...
Author: Carl Larson "Michael Singer is our only hope." This is what I absent-mindedly scrawled on a napkin on Saturday morning. I had just seen two of three proposals for a landscape sculpture adjacent to Middlebury College's new library. Singer did not disappoint and the College will most likely have ...
Author: Erika Mercer "Sea Change" is comparable to your family's Christmas tree after all of the lights and ornaments have been removed - bare, bummed out and bland. Of course, it's still beautiful simply as a tree (as trees naturally are), yet in some ways it's too late - you've seen it in all its ...
Author: Trevor Snapp Last Saturday, post-performance, the members of the Kronos Quartet sat in illuminated blue plastic chairs grinning and smiling. David Harrington's hair lurched toward Dartmouth's Spalding Auditorium's high ceiling. Next to him, John Sherba sat happy and eager behind a long mustache. ...
Author: Edward Pickering A memoir of imprisonment and escape, "Papillon" ranks among the greatest adventure stories ever written. It took France, then England and America by storm when first published in 1969."Papillon" is your summer reading, and you found it right here.At the age of 25 Frenchman Henri ...
Author: Suzanne Mozes As the war with Iraq rolls on, a less organized campaign against the very officials initiating the "shock and awe" campaign unfolds on our home ground with celebrities leading the battle cry.As the months built up to Bush's declaration of war on Saddam Hussein's regime, celebrities ...