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Richard S. Beck
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'Space Between' Is Visual Success
Here is what J. Robert Oppenheimer (Simon J. Williams ’09) says when he hears the death toll at Hiroshima: “Some
'Assassins' Rocks the Relevance
A few Tuesdays ago, a little after 11 at night, a bottle of champagne was making the rounds. Everyone was
By Its Cover
THE WAY OF THE WORLD: A STORY OF TRUTH AND HOPE IN AN AGE OF EXTREMISM by Ron Suskind New
‘Sweeney Todd’ A Sadistic Pleasure
“Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street”—Stephen Sondheim’s big, bloody masterpiece of a musical—thrashes around on the stage with
Putting MTV in the MFA
When I was in middle school, there was a television station called “The Box.” A kind of mass-scale precursor to
‘Shahrazad’ Worth More Than a Thousand Words
It’s usually a good rule of thumb that multi-part stories should get out while the getting’s good. Consider the ugly
FOR THE RECORD: The Dismemberment Plan
“Emergency & I,” the fourth album by Washington, D.C., quartet the Dismemberment Plan, is my favorite high school record. I
Torpor Clouds a Strong ‘Tempest’
Shakespeare is so pervasive, so entrenched in Western cultural life, that his plays can sometimes be overzealously adopted by directors
‘Metamorphoses’ Makes a Splash
“You see this pool? It cost a pretty penny, I can tell you.” Yes indeed, King Midas. I do see
POPSCREEN GOES TO WAR
So much crazy beef, you guys! The recent sales war between oft-whiny pop star Kanye West and frowny-faced 50 Cent