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These (admittedly unrepresentative) mini-tableaux provide an accounting of much of American history as well as contemporary snapshots. Beyond that, they also provide the underlying reason for the enduring need to make a public, legal affirmation which a wedding ceremony provides--our faith in new beginnings...
...later shared the Broadway stage with the likes of Carol Channing, Sid Caesar and Zero Mostel. He was awarded a best Actor Emmy award for his portrayal of Gary Gilmore in "The Executioner's Song" and was nominated for another Emmy for his performance in the mini-series "Lonesome Dove." In addition to his movie role in Oliver Stone's "JFK," for which he was nominated as Best Supporting Actor by the Academy, Jones has starred in "The coal Miner's Daughter," "The Package" and the Harvard-Radcliffe favorite, "Love Story...
What's wrong with Assassin, the group game of mock murder? Houses have hosted mini-tournaments for years, and first-years played last year. But Assistant Dean of Students Sarah Flatley-Wheaton told the game's organizer that Assassin "does not present a good image of Harvard...
Recent group shows, including that landmark dud, the 1993 Whitney Biennial, have been full of this stuff -- by Sue Williams, Raymond Pettibon and others. Its tacky sub-pop imagery, its dazed passive-aggressive stance, its fixation on teenage weltschmerz, all entitle it to be seen as a mini-trend, linking up with the wider American cult of dumb popular therapeutics. In the 1980s, American neo-Expressionist artists shoved their excremental clods of paint at us with the self-evident pleasure that eight-year-olds take in dirty words. Patheticism is the conceptual version of this: no paint, just the words...
...promise of her first two features. Sweetie (1989), about the devastating effect a disturbed young woman has on her family, was bitter medicine; the movie double-dared its audience to find sympathy in its dour or manic characters. In An Angel at My Table (1990), a three-part mini-series based on the biographies of Australian novelist Janet Frame, Campion located her elliptical, microcosmic style. But % this lovely film lost its way before its climax, and before it could find a wider audience...