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...Dogs Playing Poker" sealed its final win against Penn by correctly identifying 1995 San Francisco may-oral candidates Willie Brown, Frank Jordan and Roberta Achtenberg from brief clues given about each...
...concentration requires students to focus their studies on a single country or a limited period of time in several countries. The rigorous academic requirements include a sophomore essay, a junior essay, a junior general exam, a senior thesis and a senior oral exam...
Literature and Arts C-20, "The Hero of Irish Myth and Saga," is where to go for all the juicy details about the lives of Lug, Medb, Cu Chulainn and the rest of the kings, queens, conquerors and gods in the Celtic oral tradition...
...extract the dreams of young children, unfortunately without success. Krank's henchmen are the fanatic Cyclops cult, an army of blind men, whose sight and hearing are enhanced by Krank's electronic inventions. A little boy, Denree (Joseph Lucien, who has the biggest eyes and oral fixation of any young actor in a surrealist movie in recent memory), is one of the children kidnapped, and his adopted older brother, One (Ron Perlman, showing that the giant chin he sported in The Name of the Rose was no mere makeup), a fun fair strongman, attempts to find him. He is helped...
Both versions still have more to offer than poignancy and politics, but not from the tales themselves. Rather the anthology serves as a description of memory and how memory is adapted, treated and socialized. Like Levi-Strauss recording folklore, Masters was preserving in writing an oral history that would have continued to transform itself over the years beyond recognition of its original form or died out altogether had he not interceded. How residents of Spoon River handled memory is the most trenchant aspect of the Nora Theater's current production...