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...note, Administration gimmicks like the acceleration of federal payments to veterans and health-care facilities will taper off sharply this fall. "Most likely the economy will worsen again later this year or in early 1993," write David Levy and S. Jay Levy of the Jerome Levy Economic Institute at Bard College. "Unfortunately, the positive effect of these stimulative actions will be short-lived and give way to negative effects...
Standing for most of her performance in front of a fixed-image of a road receding into the distance, Laurie Anderson is a diminutive spiky-haired bard of the nineties. During a topical multimedia performance titled Voices From the Beyond last Friday at a packed Sanders Theater, Anderson endeared, entertained and decidedly challenged her audience...
...could find more industry per capita in these nine square miles than anywhere else in the world. This was the home of the Victor talking machine, Campbell's soup and the Esterbrook pen. In the cavernous shipyards, 35,000 men once toiled, hammering out eight vessels at a time. Bard of it all was Walt Whitman, whose spirit trembled at the call of an industrial giant that thrived on the energy, poetry and power of machines. Whitman loved the noise of Camden, and his poems sang the glorious, churning, clangorous, whirlwind mess...
TWELFTH NIGHT. Gender bending is at the center of the Bard's richest comedy, so director Neil Bartlett takes the idea to a wry extreme at Chicago's Goodman Theater, casting a man as the cross-dressing woman and women in most of the parts meant...
...stranger to the bar scene of his own era, the Bard of Brooklyn would love the crowd at Chicago's Green Mill Lounge. Every Sunday night it's standing room only in this gritty neighborhood tavern. The audience is there for the weekly "slam," a literary version of The Gong Show at which amateur poets compete for small cash prizes and the much richer reward of having their work heard by an enthusiastic public. The poetic abilities of many contestants may be open to debate, but the audience is always in top form. On a typical evening a rambling poem...