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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Harvard Film Archive. Carpenter Centerfor the Visual Arts. 24 Quincy St. 495-4700."Arizona Dream" at 3 and 7:30 p.m. Tickets $6.50.(See March 10 Listing) Two films in the Women inJapanese Films series: "Street of Shame" at 7 p.m."Odd Obsession" at 9 p.m. Tickets $5 for students,$6 general
Whatever else may be said about this initiative, its timing is certainly odd. At the moment when the new Republican Congressional majority is telling us that our governing institutions should stop spending our money for purely ideological gestures that don't produce practical results, our own Republican Club wants Harvard to "tax" its students $135,000 in tuition money so it can "spend' it to express some unspecified (and unasked for) institutional support for the military, while gaining no practical benefit for Harvard students whatsoever. Wouldn't it make more practical and ideological sense for the Republican Club to show...
...undiscovered planets whose gravity was causing the anomalies-sort of the Cold Dark Matter of the time. Sure enough, Neptune finally appeared in their telescopes. But the other planet, Vulcan, never did materialize. In the end, said Spergel, it took the theory of general relativity to explain Mercury's odd behavior...
...silkscreen paintings of the early '60s, and so did James Rosenquist with big quasi-dioramas like The F-111, his reflection on the Vietnam War. Kitaj differs from both, for he wanted to paint his images all the way through, not transfer them out of mass media. It's odd that in the midst of all the talk about "appropriation" that went on through the '80s and into the '90s, Kitaj's name so seldom came up in New York: for this is a painter mad about quotation, about scouring the landfill of 20th century image-memory for fragments that...
EXPECTING. Political odd couple MARY MATALIN, 41, ex-Bush campaign aide, and JAMES CARVILLE, 50, Clinton strategist; a baby girl, sometime in July, to be named Matalin Mary Carville; in Washington...