Word: maya
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Three years and countless headlines later, the question is still worth asking. Dunster students know that Maya G. Prabhu '94 was voted the house's Most Visible Sophomore the year the posters went up, and that she has, in the last year and a half, led a quiet life of studying and volunteering. The rest of campus might, of course, recall a time when Maya Prabhu was Harvard's Most Visible Student, when something went awry for this onetime rising star of the Undergraduate Council...
Today, as always, Maya Prabhu is above all things proper, and at all times dressed for a garden party. She dons a fairly ubiquitous hat ("I don't want melanoma or carcinoma by the time l'm 25, l'm lucky that hats are fashionable, but l'd wear them even if they weren't.") She often wears dresses, and with dresses, she always wears pantyhose. "That's just," she says, "the way I was brought...
...Manitoba Woman," the cartoon creation of a Matthews dormmate, first appeared on Prabhu's campaign posters in the Southwest Yard. She was a superheroine, whose chest was emblazoned with an "M" (for both "Maya" and "Manitoba.") For a time, Prabhu says, people would call her to ask where Manitoba was. They knew, at least, who Maya Prabhu was--she came in second in the Southwest race, winning herself a council seat...
...women who represent the opinions and comments from hundreds of women that she has recorded in her research. These conversations are a mixture of group therapy, lessons in ecology and New Age karma. Rosa likes to rub Tibetan monk singing bowls while talking about the "old patriarchal sexual equation"; Maya, 70 years old and going strong, shouts out '"Skin hunger!" to get her point across...
...play that ought to be heard more than seen. They are each strong and confident in their portrayals. Meekins, who seems to gain confidence as the show progresses, maintains Daryl's haughtiness without losing depth and understanding. Her character is helped by her recitation of a poem by Maya Angelou. Here Meekins manages to convey a hidden intensity that saves her character from becoming just another corporate executive senseless to the social implications of her work...