Word: leape
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...even on dark themes, her writing, like his, has the elegant fizz of brut champagne." One terrible night in 1968 Douglass Adair, then a teacher at the Claremont colleges, walked into their bedroom and killed himself. His widow's agony and incomprehension, in poems reflecting lost love, all but leap from page to reader...
Every time Quad residents wait at the curb near Johnston Gate or the Science Center, hearts leap. Is that monolith coming around the corner our shuttle? No, it's a Greyhound bus. Is that rattle-and-hum our shuttle? No, it's a snowplow. Is that knight in shining armor on wheels our shuttle...
With an expression of art as contemporary as modern dance, it is not always easy to draw exact meanings from a performance. A startled leap, a passionate embrace, the hurling of dolls across the stage--all of these motions could mean a number of things. Anger? Fear? Rebellion against society? A choreographer's intention can be difficult to decipher. With a company like Paula Josa-Jones/Performance Works, however, those intentions can be nearly impossible to grasp...
While CEOs are no doubt preparing speeches about the relationship between risk and reward, a few statistics intrude. To wit: despite the gush of profits, stockholders didn't see a comparable leap in their dividends. And employees took home only 2.7% more in wages and benefits during the year, the lowest increase since the government began tracking compensation in '81. Though turn-of-the-century financier J.P. Morgan argued that a CEO should never make more than 20 times the average salary of a company's employees, the ratio has escalated radically in recent years. In a sample...
Megan Matthew's staging of Ntozake Shange's for colored girls who have considered suicide when the rainbow is enuf possesses a cohesion one would not expect when poetry makes the leap onto the stage. The production capitalizes on the narrative and emotional force of the poems, providing insight into issues that black and Hispanic women face: abortion, battery, rape and racial tension as well as love and hope...