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...sculpture by a top swimmer, or a track star singing in an a cappella group. The newly-built Spencer Art Building is home to many a budding artist, and a cappella is hugely popular: there are presently nine different groups. One of Williams' special offerings is Independent Music Project (IMP), which allows student composers to create and perform works for the community. And just a few weeks ago, the campus learned that the popular African dance group Kusika, along with the Dance Company, will soon enjoy a new performance space...
...bend over, and I'll show you some [--]": (imp.) useful when challenging another's comment. "Wasn't the cusk at Annenberg divine tonight?" "Whatever. Bend over and I'll show you some cusk...
...Tori Amos. The fairy-eyed, flame-haired imp who straddles the piano bench while playing songs with lyrics like, "Look, I'm standing naked before you, / Don't you want more than my sex?" ,and ends every concert with a heart-wrenching rendition of "Over the Rainbow." Ever since her groundbreaking and soul-churning first album, Little Earthquakes, she has captured the attention of nearly everyone, from emotionally tormented souls and the most critical of music critics. Her quirky, often abrasive songs unabashedly confront sex, heartache and religion without whining or spewing out popmusic poetry, a la Jewel...
Inside Howard is also an imp, one that can explode without warning, like the alien in John Hurt's belly. Howard's hand suddenly goes all frilly and limp; he refers to a crossroads as an "intersexual...homosection...intersection." Are these the symptoms of some rare disease--gay Tourette's--or merely the reaction of a gentle man under pressure? His life has been a mess ever since a former student of his, Cameron Drake (Matt Dillon), won an Oscar for playing a homosexual. In his acceptance speech, Cameron thanked his inspiring English teacher back home...
Satan makes few appearances in the Old Testament and never as a figure of consequence. In the Book of Job, he's an imp in God's retinue, a challenger tolerated by a confident Creator. The New Testament enlarges him. Like most religious scholars, Pagels believes the Gospels were set down in the latter half of the first century, after the defeat of the Jewish rebellion against Rome. "Wartime literature," she calls them, reflecting the divisions among Jews traumatized by the sack of Jerusalem and the destruction of their temple...