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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...steps. "We start with simple movements like how to move quickly and slowly--really basic things," says Citystep instructor Magdalena Hernandez '90. The movements gradually become more complicated, she says. The children pretend to be different animals including a borsch bear which is a really heavy movement", a "cool cat", a "slithery snake where they slither across the floor" and a "fierce fox where they run and jump...

Author: By Melanie R. Williams, | Title: Cambridge Kids Step Out With Style | 4/15/1988 | See Source »

...Your Cat Is Dead...

Author: By Sean C. Griffin, | Title: Heavy Petting | 4/15/1988 | See Source »

PLOTWISE and character-wise, P.S. Your Cat is Dead is like the final season of The Love Boat. Acting-wise, the play is uneven, but the good actors are the ones who spend the most time onstage anyway. The play itself is a little more than the sum of its parts. It comes off rather well if you can weather the banality of the script and just enjoy the two main characters...

Author: By Sean C. Griffin, | Title: Heavy Petting | 4/15/1988 | See Source »

Despite the flaws, P.S. Your Cat is Dead comes out well. O'Keefe and Condon make a good comic duo, projecting a lot of humor through a mediocre script. They wring sympathy out of moments that could be unbearably hokey. What it boils down to is, do you want surprises or do you want fun? Dead cats...

Author: By Sean C. Griffin, | Title: Heavy Petting | 4/15/1988 | See Source »

...emblems of stringent modernity: the Eiffel Tower, a parachutist, a train upside-down but still insouciantly chuffing. It owes a lot to his friend Robert Delaunay, who made abstractions of Paris windows. But the picture is plucked back from the analytic by its delicious strain of fantasy: a cat with a man's head serenading on the sill, a Janus head (Chagall himself, looking forward to modernism and back to the village?) displaying a heart on his hand. He was unquestionably a prince of tropes. "With Chagall alone," said Andre Breton, leader of the surrealists, "metaphor made its triumphant entry...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Fiddler on the Roof of Modernism: Marc Chagall: 1887-1985 | 4/8/1988 | See Source »

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