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...image of the airline as a moving dining room." With meals like poached salmon and beef stroganoff -- in coach class, no less -- Alaska Airlines spends $7.80 a customer on food, about $3 more than the average for U.S. carriers. This has allowed Erbe, who trained in the kitchens of Hamburg's Hotel Vier Jahreszeiten (Four Seasons), to add venison, pheasant and Cajun catfish as first-class entrees...
Members of the the task force are: Philippa A. Bovet, dean of Radcliffe; Ellen Fitzpatrick, assistant professor of history; Deborah Foster, senior tutor of Currier House; Naomi Hamburg; Melissa R. Hart '91; Hilda-Hernandez-Gravelle, assistant dean for race relations and minority affairs; Elizabeth Keeney, director of advanced standing; Davida F. McDonald '92; and Henry Moses, dean of freshmen...
...slow response to demands for a women's center, as well as with the confusion surrounding the Lyman Common Room, has led students to form the Women's Center. Resource Group (WCRG). "A women's center has been a hazy longterm possibility for too long," WCRG member Naomi Hamburg says. "Action has to be taken now. We can't sit around and expect a center to just appear in five years...
That is a partial tally of deliberate affronts to the audience in 15 acclaimed stage shows from East and West Berlin, Munich, Hamburg, Bremen, Bochum and Schwerin. All were imported for, or staged locally to enrich, last month's Berlin Theatertreffen, the city's 27th annual festival of productions from around the German-speaking world. Although the doctrinaire Marxism of Bertolt Brecht, Germany's greatest 20th century playwright, has fallen out of fashion, his zeal to shake up bourgeois spectators still seems to inspire his artistic successors...
...director, not the writer or actor, and thus style, imagery and "concept" dominate the more human appeals of having a story and finding an emotional way to tell it. Performers are often treated like puppets. In staging Brecht's A Man's a Man for the Thalia Theater of Hamburg, director Katharina Thalbach encased the actors in masks and bodysuits so that they resembled cartoons. Playwrights, too, often find their vision subordinated to directors'. This year's Theatertreffen included two contemporary plays that were in the 1988 or 1989 festivals, on the basis that the 1990 productions were so different...