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...everywhere. By the same token, an increasing number of our parents are finding it possible to set limits on their children, to ask of them as well as give to them, and to regard them more realistically-as messengers of hope but not by any means guarantors of a near-perfect world to come...
...inseparable from that context. Its salvaged wooden beams, bolted together and strung with chain, are a homage to the plain speech of early industrial architecture. There is also a strong connection to abstract-expressionist painting. As James Monte points out in his catalogue essay, these weathered timbers were "a near-perfect analogue of the wide brush stroke in the painting of Kline and de Kooning...
...should really be taken in like a dose of laughing gas--without thinking about anything, just relaxing yourself into a body-wide grin. This production, directed by the talented Jeff Melvoin, was reviewed in yesterday's Crimson. It's not a perfect staging, but enough of Stoppard's near-perfect brilliance comes through to make it an enjoyable evening. Tonight, Friday, and Saturday night at 8 p.m. at the Loeb Main stage...
...Kulthum, the buxom, handkerchief-waving Egyptian singer who was known to her Middle Eastern fans as "the Nightingale of the Nile." She had a stentorian contralto and a quavering wail that grated on the ears of those attuned to the trills of opera divas. But her voice was a near-perfect instrument for expressing the sinuous quarter tones of Arabic music...
Head resident in goal for B.U. will be freshman Brian Durocher. Durocher, since taking over the crease chores, has posted a near-perfect 10-1 slate and a strong 3.45 goals against average...