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...effort to increase awareness on campus of original student writing, the recently revamped literary magazine Padan Aram is holding a series of House-sponsored readings beginning tonight in Lowell House...
...past, most fiction and poetry readings on campus have been sponsored by The Advocate, an older and more established literary magazine. But the Padan Aram series is the first to appear this year. David A. Longobardi `84, president of he Advocate, said his magazine generally holds one major to senior memers or writers published frequently in the magazine...
...Roberts). He wines and dines her, wins her away from her mother and younger sister--and gets her into the centerfold of Playboy magazine. Dorothy marries Paul, becomes Playmate of the Year for 1980, and then just as she's beginning a film career and an affair with Director Aram Nicholas (a loosely disguised Peter Bogdanovich, played by Roger Rees) her estranzed husband assaults her, blows her head off, and then turns the gun on himself. A fit subject for Hollywood style moralizing, but Fosse is not reminding us that all that glitters is not gold--the modern bumper sticker...
...Aram Nicholas does seem to offer Dorothy an avenue of escape, and this allows Fosse to present her story as a tragedy. Nicholas doesn't ask to see pictures of her when she auditions, he just looks at her until she blushes. He tells her to make her own decisions, to leave Snider--but in his eyes there is a feverish, ashamed glint that hides the familiar fantasies: Nicholas's difference is that he sees her as a Madonna instead of a whore. When she's with Aram she dresses better and drives a nicer car--but she's still...
...Things just weren't moving at Padan Aram, and I came along and had some good ideas," he says. The magazine's publication last month marked its first appearance in more than a year...