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...could ever blackmail Madonna. Indiscretions other stars would pay to suppress she is happy to exploit. A stormy marriage to Sean Penn, a brisk fling with Warren Beatty, the teasing hint of a tryst with Sandra Bernhard, MTV's banning of the gender-blender Justify My Love video: no problem. Every fresh outrage is a soaring career move. Last week Madonna made the front page of the New York Daily News by giving a chatty-sassy interview to the gay biweekly The Advocate. She gets tabloid treatment -- just as much as she wants -- in slick magazines. New York, People, Vanity...
...stands in the Square waiting to get his picture taken, Gordon M. Fauth '93 has to be reminded to smile. It's a sunny, brisk day, and chattering students and the Out-of-Town News worker cut between Fauth and the Crimson photographer, ducking their heads, nodding in silent apology and moving on down the street. All around swirl the sounds of the Square, from the hawks of the Square Deal man to the laughter of the kids in the pit by the T-stop. Gordon's silence and stiff posture are strangely out of place in this acre...
...strokes, heavy layering of paint and the lack of focal point. In a lesser artist these techniques would seem hackneyed and dull. But Bush's individual brush stroke and dynamic use of color eliminate the potential problem. For example, Untitled I shows a spectrum of vibrant colors painted in brisk, assertive strokes which cover two canvases. The resulting piece has neither a central form nor dominant color. Instead the interplay of colors and the rich texture spread equally over the work, leading the eye in multiple directions...
Meanwhile, pitiful dateless slobs would partake of alternative forms of celebration. These included brisk rereadings of Locke's Second Treatise on Government, fiercely competitive Scrabble tournaments, ceremonial renditions of Mozart's Fourth Oboe Quintet and heated discussions of the socioeconomic and metaphysical implications of pita pizza...
From his podium at New York City's Lincoln Center last week, Raymond Leppard gave a brisk downbeat and drew forth the majestic D that opens the "Haffner" Symphony. In doing so, he began the gala observance of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's 235th birthday. He also began an unprecedented Lincoln Center extravaganza: to celebrate the 200th anniversary of Mozart's death by performing during the next 19 months every note he ever wrote...