Word: accents
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...even The Crimson sometimes slips into Beavisism. A recent staff editorial on teaching fellows opened with an imitation of a math teacher with an East Asian accent (Carcurus....hunh hunh.....that's cool). A piece about the Harvard-Radcliffe Students for Choice compared the organization's officers to characters from "Beverly Hills 90210" and spent a quarter of its length parodying typographical errors in the group's newsletter (hunh hunh.... 90210 is cool...
...Doug to fetch her ball). In several scenes Doug and Tess engage in ridiculously immature exchanges--in which Doug threatens to leave, and Tess tells him to go, but everyone knows that she doesn't really want him to. Phone calls from a President with a Clinton-esque Southern accent keep Doug in line; the Commander-in-Chief tells Doug to stay with Tess, because "she's a national treasure, [even though]...she's a pain...
...students use their TF's accent as anexcuse not to do their best work," said Donna R.D'Fini, coordinator of the department's graduateprograms. "Some students concentrate on theaccent, not on the math...
...Things have a lot to do with culturaldifferences and prejudices," D'Fini said. "Somestudents come in with a mind that is alreadyclosed to a TF with an accent--in the time thatI've been here I've even seen students complainingabout a TF with a strong Southern accent...
...example of why White Oak's eclectic programming works -- and may be a harbinger of dance's future. Unlike virtually any other choreographer, Cunningham thinks in terms of neither music nor steps but segments of time. "Given 10 seconds," he says, "the dancer has to define the phrase and accent something within the time." An evening of Cunningham can be bewitching. But it is only when one sees one of his pieces alongside the choreography of others that one appreciates just how different in weight and shape his work really is. Cunningham says he created Signals after observing groupings...