Word: adamancy
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...work "to the memory of an angel." Robbins' scenario begins quietly and a bit flatly as Farrell moves with increasing stiffness and bafflement between her lover (tenderly danced by Joseph Duell) and friends. Suddenly they move off and she is left with a gauntly beautiful angel of death (Adam Luders). Their pas de deux is the heart of the ballet. The moves are often slow and arduous, but the great tension and energy between the dancers make the struggle heartbreaking. Robbins goes boldly to Farrell's melodramatic strain, and she responds by portraying the horror of death without any romantic...
...star witness in Poland's latest courtroom drama arrived wearing a T shirt emblazoned with the logo of Solidarity, the outlawed labor union he helped found. Lech Walesa had been summoned by the prosecution to testify in the trial of three Solidarity supporters, Bogdan Lis, Wladyslaw Frasyniuk and Adam Michnik, charged with trying to organize strikes to protest food-price increases. Walesa's testimony was as defiant as his dress. "Three innocent people are in the dock," he told the court...
...strung together with more than a few loose ends. The cult whorehouse in New Hampshire may be an unnecessary toner of John Irving, but it does allow for amusing satire of back-to-nature religious cults. Theoron is bewildered by the Adamite cult-in which, unsurprisingly, everyone is named Adam-which professes to practice coitus reservatus (carefully distinguished from interruptus), but then discovers it to be a cover for a bordello and much more...
Mark K. Benning '86 felt alienated at first, and Adam Lewis '86 thinks he's been "jerked around." Andrew J. Sussman '87 has been pleased from the start, because he found what he was looking for. Kathryn A. Kleiman '86, though, is counting on the fact that it will get better. And David D. Watson '86 says it would have been worth it under any circumstances...
...transfer students share Sussman's approval for the administration's treatment of transfers. Adam Lewis '86, originally from Yarmouth, Maine, transferred from the University of Maine at Orono after his sophomore year, and received housing in North House this spring...