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...Apple considers itself the dance capital of the world, and mostly it's a legitimate boast. At some point every company has to take on Manhattan, with its knowledgeable, picky, I've-seen-it-all audiences and its I've-seen-it-all-a-hundred-times critics. A New York season is expensive too. So White Oak was probably wise to wait until it had shaken down and matured -- the troupe now has eight dancers instead of 14 -- before spending nearly $500,000 for a week at Lincoln Center. Any financial anxieties were quickly dispelled; the run was sold...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DANCE: Thoroughly Modern Misha | 3/14/1994 | See Source »

Like at the airport this can often lead to substantial lines. Lamont officials have put up signs warning of delays and encouraging use of an alternate exit. The lines persist. Harvard may boast of its vast library holdings, but no one can deny that bibliophiles are queuing...

Author: By Benjamin J. Heller, | Title: DART BOARD | 2/26/1994 | See Source »

Those students who say they haven't learned anything from the course should therefore realize that that's nothing to boast about: it is an admission of their immaturity or of their lack of ability or of both. It isn't the first time a pearl was thrown to the undeserving. Michael S. Pak Ph.D. Candidate, History, GSAS

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: History Course Is Not a 'Gut' | 2/24/1994 | See Source »

...proposed slashing appropriations for seven of 14 Cabinet departments, shrinking some 300 programs and eliminating more than 100 others. Everyone from poor families who receive home-heating assistance to communities hard hit by layoffs would feel the pinch. Indeed, as Clinton declared in a statement that contained both a boast and more than a touch of rue, the document represents "the toughest budget in spending cuts that Congress has yet seen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Famine -- and Feast | 2/21/1994 | See Source »

Pritchard and Gutierrez, producing the "zine" from their San Francisco apartment, proudly explain their writing selection by the fact that they have "no taboo subjects." Looking for "truly transgressive and well-written" work, Pritchard and Gutierrez also require that it be genuine, and evidently see no contradiction in their boast, "Our fiction is real." Gutierrez insists that we are repressed in our daily lives, and it is therefore important that these writers can "write their own truth." Thus featured is "Piercing Insights," an expose, complete with eight graphic photos of Nancy Irwin enjoying the experience of having 60 22-gauge...

Author: By Edith Replogle, | Title: Neigh, Neigh, Nanette | 2/10/1994 | See Source »

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