Word: christinas
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Captains: Christina Dragom-irescu and Jamie Henikoff...
...Captain Christina Dragomirescu, senior Niki Rival, junior Amy deLone and sophomore Jennifer Minkus will be the top returning Harvard players who must live up to the squad's big-shot reputation earned after last spring's solid 15-11 season when the Crimson finished tied for first in the Ivy League...
...case in point is the Corcoran Gallery's sudden cancellation of an exhibit of Robert Mapplethorpe's photographs. The whole matter was needlessly confused when the director, Christina Owr-Chall, claimed she was canceling the show to protect it from censorship. She meant that there might be pressure to remove certain pictures -- the sadomasochistic ones or those verging on kiddie porn -- if the show had gone on. But she had in mind, as well, the hope of future grants from the National Endowment for the Arts, which is under criticism for the Mapplethorpe show and for another show that contained...
...becomes combustible. A case in point: on June 12 Washington's Corcoran Gallery of Art abruptly canceled an exhibit of Robert Mapplethorpe's work, which included sadomasochistic and homoerotic photographs. "We really felt this exhibit was at the wrong place at the wrong time," explained museum director Christina Orr-Cahall. "We had the strong potential to become some persons' political platform...
...introduction to a 1965 reissue of Christina Stead's The Man Who Loved Children, the poet and critic Randall Jarrell defined a novel as "a prose narrative of some length that has something wrong with it." Stead's celebrated book was indeed lengthy and imperfect. But it had at its center an unforgettable father figure whose weakness and tyrannical urges were disguised by forced jollity. Francis Clemmons, the dear old dad of Joan Chase's lyric second novel (her first, During the Reign of the Queen of Persia, won PEN's Ernest Hemingway Foundation Award in 1984), also...