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...little is known about it. There are the rumors, of course. (No, the menus aren't really planned by a poltergeist who lives in Widener D level--it's an extremely nice woman in the basement of the Union.) And there are innumerable questions posed over the meatless chile con carne and the meal on a muffin. For example, why do I have to pay the full board fee if I never eat breakfast? Why does Adams have realcoffee, and Eliot doesn't? And perhaps most important, if Dartmouth can offer a variety of meal plan contracts for students...
...Dean's theater of today's avant-garde dance. For Cunningham first pioneered an idea Dean and her contemporaries take for granted: that dance is an independent structure. Cunningham required his dancers to count an entire dance in their minds and muscles, not to rely on external cues. The con-centration involed is so demanding that a new performance style evolved as its inevitable consequence--the choreographer directed his dancers to present movement rather than project meaning. As a result, Cunningham audiences confront the countenances of dancers intensely concentrating on movement, rather than dramatizing character, onstage. A second Cunningham innovation...
Another explanation is that the ads draw attention, but that women interpret them innocently. The Vogue spread drew only 35 letters, pro and con. Says Managing Editor Kate Lloyd: "The pictures reminded me of when I was 16 years old and indulged in horseplay with fellas. That's why it surprises me that people would read into it real harm...
...years, Beckett watchers have been picking up signals that the Master has at last said it all. A play he wrote in 1966, which lasted 30 seconds and con sisted of a single intake and exhalation, fueled much speculation that he had at last achieved silence. The appearance of these two volumes is added evidence that Beckett is still doing more than breathing. In fact, Beckett himself has set down a fictional prophecy that now seems closer to the mark. In Malone Dies, the narrator tries to arrange things so that his story, the stub of the pencil with which...
...relatively speaking. Buried under record snowfalls, northern New York did close schools heated by gas. Residents of the Buffalo area were asked to set thermostats at a shivering 55°. Two General Motors plants near Buffalo and a Bethlehem Steel factory near Lackawanna closed their doors. But much-maligned Con Edison, which lights up most of the New York megalopolis, had its day in the cold. The giant utility, which has generated criticism for high prices and erratic service, was meeting its commitments and even urging New Yorkers to share electricity with other states that had helped them in past...