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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...subject matter of Enemy of the State is not complete nonsense, as the threat of constant surveillance is a fear in our modern world in the computer age. With a few PIN numbers and observational satellites, your life could be easily monitored and destroyed by a voyeuristic agency with the right technology and intelligence. The threat of terrorism increased by such atrocities as the Oklahoma City bombing has set some lawmakers into a fearful frenzy over preventive measures. And with cameras sitting on the top of traffic signals at intersections in England, can such surveillance techniques become policy...
...kinds of settings since, with casts ranging from the pathetically pre-teen to the deaf and geriatric, Guys and Dolls has proven difficult to ruin, remaining everyone's favorite for its lovable plot and classic '50s show tunes. Harvard, which according to director Colleen McGuinness '99 is predisposed towards "modern, very smart shows" rather than "big show stopper classics," is one of the few places you wouldn't expect Guys and Dolls to play. Though this "slant towards the non-traditional" was one of the lesser barriers to the show's production, Guys and Dolls will indeed open this weekend...
...sounds more like film music than a symphony. Koehne calls his piece a contemporary homage to the music of Les Baxter, Henry Mancini and John Barry, but Elevator Music also sounds distinctively Gershwin. Moreover, there is a peculiar consistency in Elevator Music that is hard to find in many modern pieces. Rather than the "degradation" of common time into complex and quirky meters, Koehne sticks mostly to the tried and true 4/4 time signature...
Teachers and counselors report that kids who are taught to hunt responsibly are generally among the more mature and better-mannered--and saner--adolescents in the wilds of modern American culture. Cesario Guerrero, an agricultural-science teacher, leads kids from tough neighborhoods in inner-city Houston on hunting trips for deer and wild hogs and observes that these students often "become part of a different crowd" when they return. "It gives them a pride...
...Herself), which begins in weird lamplight and ends in shadow. As raw as any of E.J. Bellocq's shots of New Orleans prostitutes, it also has the strange torsion of Lee Friedlander's tumbling nudes. This is Degas, cold and formidable, who saw what was angular in what was modern, even when he painted ballerinas...