Word: jeane
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Professor of History Jean Harvey Baker took the podium yesterday, and with that move she became something of a pioneer...
Until try-outs are over, the spikers will have to rely heavily on seniors Suzanne Tapson and Cassell, sophomores Manda Schossberger and Leah Polikoff and Forman, all of whom were starters on last year's team. In addition, Pascale Jean-Louis--who took a year off from volleyball--has rejoined the team...
...Grooms' exuberance there is no doubt. Not for nothing does he favor the rowdy epithet ruckus in collectively naming his pieces: Ruckus Manhattan, Ruckus Rodeo. His tableaux fairly burst with riotous energy. In them, Jean Dubuffet's idea of making an art raw enough to stand up to the chaos of the street comes home to roost. Every Grooms surface pullulates with caricatural figures, each impacted with manic cartoony verve, rendered as layered plywood cutouts, as silhouettes, as stuffed dolls, as shadows. The detail is never hard to read, and one does not get lost in it, because Grooms sticks...
...material follows Thriller's golden trail. There is a Billie Jean equivalent (Dirty Diana) about a trashy romance. There are the ballads, deep as wall-to-wall pile, and there is the violent showpiece Smooth Criminal. The title track is Beat It redux, a spectacularly snazzy hang-tough tune that warns against macho excess. What the Thriller cut played for laughs, however, Smooth Criminal takes straight: an evocation of bloody assault, possible rape and likely murder. At any time, it would sound like a creepy song. At the end of the album, it has the effect of casting...
...Lynd, Camille Sanabria, Clementina Allured, Melissa August, Sharon Boger, Donald N. Collins, Joan A. Connelly, Emily Friedrich, Eileen Harkin, Susanna M. Schrobsdorff, News Desks: Brian Doyle, Waits L. May III, Jacalyn McConnell, John F. McDonald, David Richardson, Adam Sexton, Pamela H. Thompson, Diana Tollerson, Joanne Waugh, Ann Drury Wellford, Jean R. White, Mary Wormley, Arturo Yaez...