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...only) is unabated puerile nostalgia: a comprehensive archive from the pre-Alfred E. Neuman years (1952-56) through 1998. The multimedia element lets you complete all the fold-ins, listen to all the plastic 7-in. (Free Gift!) singles and watch short videos of legendary artists like Mort Drucker at work. The comic strips themselves look a little faded and grainy on a computer monitor, but at least future generations will see what all the snickering was about...
There is no doubt that UNITE has had a hand in generating student awareness of the issue. Starting in 1997, UNITE sleuths began tipping off students to the locations of alleged sweatshop factories. Since then, UNITE spokeswoman Jo-Ann Mort says, it has merely "given [the students] moral support." Lately that support has included participating in--and paying for--regular conference calls among student leaders on different campuses and coaching students over the phone during sit-ins. In February the union sent two sweatshop workers on a five-campus tour to spur greater interest in the cause. Though many student...
...last of the firsts. A paradox of sorts. Well, really, a ballet of sorts. The Festival of Firsts ends tonight. Performances include the company premiere of Le Jeun Homme et la Mort, with music by Johann Sebastian Bach and choreography by Roland Petit, and the world premieres of Bachianas, choreography by Daniel Pelzig, and Corybantic, choreography by Christopher Wheeldon of the New York City Ballet. The Shubert Theatre, 265 Tremont St., Boston...
Girls in pink! Guys in leotards! Boston Ballet presents the Festival of Firsts, featuring the premiere of Roland Petit's Le Jeune Homme et la Mort and other world premieres by Daniel Pelzig and the New York City Ballet's Christopher Wheeldon. The Wang Center, 270 Tremont...
Glenn, never one to sit long on his laurels, seems to have found a way to fill his postorbital time. Once he gets his land legs, he'll be reporting to literary agent Mort Janklow, who is said to be marketing the astronaut's memoirs. Wanna bet it won't be a joke book...