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Dylan R. Nieman '98 hung his tuxedo for his cousin's bar mitzvah on a water sprinkler head at 7:30 p.m. on Friday, setting off sprinklers throughout the building...
What makes French's rich psychological portraits so extraordinary is that he has never visited Mississippi or researched its racial practices, nor has he read much serious fiction other than the novels of his cousin John Edgar Wideman (Philadelphia Story). "The writer I admire the most is the person who wrote Black Beauty, the horse book," says French, without a hint of irony. Two more of his novels -- Patches of Fire, about Vietnam, and Holly, an interracial love story set in North Carolina in 1944 -- will soon be published...
MUSIC Composer Anthony Davis comes from a talented family: his brother Christopher is a gifted actor and his cousin Thulani an accomplished poet. Davis recalls that at Yale he encountered an essay by Nietzsche extolling opera as a reflection of a people's cultural identity. "I thought that a truly American opera would be based on African-American music," says Davis. That is precisely what he accomplished in his powerful and biting 1984 work X, The Life and Times of Malcolm X (with libretto by cousin Thulani), a fierce, modernist, free-tonal piece that employs elements of jazz, blues...
Last fall Yummy was placed with the Lawrence Hall Youth Services, which runs homes for troubled teenagers. He ran away in February and went back to his grandmother until June, when he spent two weeks in a detention facility. In July, Yummy and his cousin Darryl went on a church trip to Six Flags Great America, an hour north of the city. "Yummy couldn't get on most of the rides," Darryl says. "He was too small." On another day a neighbor, Ida Falls, took Yummy and 12 other kids to the local police station to see a film...
...blue blazer and old school tie. In Metropolitan, released in 1990, he created an engaging circle of Manhattan debs and preppies, enthralled by their own obsolescence. In Barcelona, on a larger canvas, Stillman paints a sympathetic portrait of two Americans -- Ted (Taylor Nichols), a genteel businessman, and his snarkier cousin, Fred (Chris Eigeman), a naval officer -- adrift in Spain during what the film, with beguiling pomposity, calls "the last decade of the cold...