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Suddenly, the forest corner has come alive. An unseen fan whirs on and begins to flip the pages of the book, which actually have letters printed upon them in ferric sulfate. Tea, or tannic acid, drips from the oak leaves and unites with the letters to form ink. According to Reynolds, "The wind is in effect writing itself, because the text is in onomato-poetic sounds of the wind." Thus, the figurative becomes the literal, and the metaphors that spring to mind when one first peers through the bubble windows reach a new and wonderful level...
Whatever their preferences, members of the current crop of M.B.A. graduates are finding that they must work overtime to land jobs. Says Michael Ferric, 24, who will graduate in June from Northwestern's Kellogg Graduate School of Management: "We were told to get out there early and get our names in people's faces and not stop-to just keep hitting and hitting and hitting." This year, in other words, there is little chance to succeed in business without really trying...
...Ferric Fang Jazz Quintet--Currier House Fishbowl...
Ninety-two percent egg white, 7% whey with calcium and sodium caseinates, leeithin and vegetable mono-and di-glycerides, cellulose, xanthan gums, artificial colors, aluminum sulfate, ferric orthophosphate, zinc sulfate, calcium pantothenate; last night's reheated coffee; slightly scorched day-old bread, I slice sandwich...
...rest of the production, though, is quite professional. Louise Newman's costumes, if not sumptuous, are certainly eye-catching, and Ferric Fang's orchestra does justice to the bouncy music. Best of all, the set (designed by Robert Grossman, with hilarious graphic designs by Lee Bearson and Tom Gammill) keeps the audience laughing even when the script is flagging. Like the background in a Mad Magazine cartoon, the French Gothic Palace of Justice offers all sorts of hidden gags, which usually take a while to figure out, but are genuinely worth the effort to decipher. Unfortunately, the lulls...