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...pornography of violence and infernal visions of the underclass that there may be little disbelief left. Breslin plays to this possibility with a stylistic naturalism that renders his characters as bundles of nerve endings and flurries of reflexes. They eventually numb moral response. When, for example, a man is dis membered with a chain saw, it does not seem to be an illustration of bestiality but a demonstration of the state...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: An Underdog-Eat-Underdog World | 6/14/1982 | See Source »

...editorial attacking affirmative action headlined "Dis Sho Ain't No Jive Bro,"--written entirely in a mock version of purported Black English...

Author: By Chuck Lane, | Title: Crying Out in Ignorance | 6/7/1982 | See Source »

...studying. In addition, The Review is giving Dartmouth a reputation for racism that threatens the college's ability to recruit minority freshmen. And, most seriously, The Review's provocation have led to violence. A Black alumni official, Samuel Smith, was recently convicted for assaulting a Review editor following the "Dis Sho Ain't No Jive" editorial. The Review also claims that Black students slashed the tires and broke the windows of the paper's delivery truck...

Author: By Chuck Lane, | Title: Crying Out in Ignorance | 6/7/1982 | See Source »

...Dartmouth faculty council voted to condemn the paper after undergraduate leaders complained about the paper to the college dean. The students singled out an article on affirmative action entitled "Dis Sho' Ain't no Jive Bro," which was written entirely in "jive...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Keeping Track | 5/28/1982 | See Source »

...Elie Chaib and the cool, correct Carolyn Adams unleash steps that leave dancers in the audience breathless. All the Taylor signature movements are concentrated here: performers extend into precarious postures, arms and hands arc into orbit, leaps become new formations in midair. Few works in the current dance repertory dis play so much vibrancy and amplitude. The piece contains a message as well: modern dance has risen from the floor-where it lay in defiance of ballet-to employ an immense treasure of movement and lyricism. To date, Court is the most accomplished announcement of that rebirth. Memo to June...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Dance: The Tolkien of Choreographers | 5/3/1982 | See Source »

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