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...Exams are more important," said Suzana Grego '94. "I have no notion of the outer world...
Mystery Science Theater 3000 (Comedy Channel). While we watch campy old movies (Rocketship X-M; The Corpse Vanishes), three outer-space wisecrackers provide tongue-in-cheek patter from the front row. This goofy stunt, first cooked up for a Minneapolis UHF station, is funnier than it has any right...
Copywriters estimate that they have only four seconds to get a consumer's attention with direct mail. Hence great care is devoted to the design of the envelope, the crucial outer garment that direct-mail watchdog Denison Hatch likens to "hot pants on a hooker." It may be deliberately oversize or emblazoned with URGENT warnings in bold red letters. It can be laser printed to make a boxholder's name appear handwritten, or stamped with an eye-fetching cancellation mark. "My job," explains Ted Kikoler, a Toronto graphic designer who works primarily for U.S. firms, "is to make people read...
...nuances of light was subsumed in rendering a molecular space, dancing and palpitating with perfectly controlled motes of close-valued color and big, tranquil, centered images that resembled stars or novas. One can see them as part of the same (now utterly defunct) fixation on the "spiritual" possibilities of outer space that tinged the culture of the day, whose big expression in film was Stanley Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey...
...strong program consisted of Haydn's Trio in D minor (Hob. XV:23), Brahms' Trio in C minor (Opus 101), and Dvorak's Trio in E minor (Opus 90, "Dumky"). The Haydn and Brahms are both lyrical pieces, with standard formats of two moderately-fast outer movements which act as a frame for the inner character-piece movements. The Dumky trio is unusual and uniquely beautiful, however, as a set of six successive movements which share the same folk-themes. The choice of pieces on the program created an unusual--but ultimately successful--combination...