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...comprised of Joseph Jarman, Roscoe Mitchell, Famoudou Don Moye, and Malachi Favors Meghostut, abide by the motto "Ancient to the Future." As Bowie explains; "We want the different elements of music--some of our stuff has lovely little melodies, and a lot is wild stuff...

Author: By Ari Z. Posner, | Title: All That Jazz | 4/6/1984 | See Source »

...What Rocks!" the Hoya fans shriek, "What Rocks!" This is the literal translation of the school's motto, "Hoya Saxa." The people in Henle 20 with the Harvard student didn't shriek that, or much of anything, until the second half of Saturday's game. What did it was an inbound pass by Gene Smith, accompanied by a grim and an unmistaka- ble nationally televised wink right into the cumeras...

Author: By Marie B. Morris, SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON | Title: What Rocks | 4/2/1984 | See Source »

...Rendered in an unobtrusive translation by Barbara Bray, The King's Way recounts in an elegant pastiche of 17th century prose the inelegant scramble among the monarch's many mistresses for sovereignty in the bedchamber. How did Mme. de Mainte non ultimately snag the Sun King? The motto she adopted tells it all: "I shine only...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Five Auspicious, Artful and Amusing Debuts | 4/2/1984 | See Source »

...Irving's prose has a subtle ability to suspend reality and carry the reader smoothly along from one fabuluously bizarre episode to another: But seen on a 15 foot screen these same fabulous events have all the subtlety and appeal of Bozo the clown. For example, the movie's motto "Keep passing the open windows" (i.e. don't jump out) somehow sounds much less embarrassing and trite when you read it in the privacy of your own home than when you hear it blasted through Dolby stereo sound speakers every 10 minutes...

Author: By Mary F. Cliff, | Title: Srange Preppies | 3/13/1984 | See Source »

...this hairdresser so successful? Sullivan believes that her motto, "fashion dictates hair," keeps her "ahead of the pack...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Hairstyle For a Lifestyle | 3/9/1984 | See Source »

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