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...that must be provoking second thoughts on Dopey Drive. Now the besieged mouse factory faces serious competition in a business it dominates, feature-length cartoons, from Katzenberg, who helped perfect the modern Disney cartoon style. If Katzenberg has a mission other than to run a state-of-the-industry multimedia company, it is to duplicate the artistic and commercial success of recent Disney animation. In Hollywood, revenge is a dish , best eaten in public -- at the box office...
Jones' most ambitious dance piece is Last Supper at Uncle Tom's Cabin/The Promised Land, a three-hour multimedia performance work that requires a cast of 50. The first half is an interpretative summary of Harriet Beecher Stowe's 1852 novel about the horrors of slavery, using both narrative and mime. (In the racially mixed company, Simon Legree is often played, ironically, by a black dancer.) The second half explores the nature of religious faith in an age plagued by evils like AIDS. It includes gospel singing, minstrel-show dancing and an improvised, unscripted conversation on whether the disease...
...physically attacked the work of 35-year-old multimedia artist Lorna Simpson, but her installations are equally confrontational. Mixing photographs with short blocks of text and recorded bits of conversation, she focuses on the ways in which black women are treated like objects in everyday language and imagery. In a 1992 piece, Self-Possession, Simpson uses a Polaroid frontal image of a woman's torso dressed in black. Its red-gloved hands frame her abdomen and the words IS 9/10THS OF THE LAW. Simpson has also collaborated with actress Alva Rogers on Places with a Past, a work that combines...
...Alabama, to New York as president and chief operating officer of Time Inc. in 1992. A mathematician by training, the burly, soft-spoken Logan quickly proved a decisive and imaginative partner as the two men together set about positioning Time Inc. for future growth in both print and multimedia in the electronic...
...addition, the Faculty Resource Center-equipped with scanners, special computers and multimedia paraphernalia-which currently shares the occupancy of B 09, will be moved across the hall to a new location in room...