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Dartmouth Record: 5-4 Captains: Jim Barton Darin Maccoux Scoring: Jim Barton, 25.6 James Blackwell, 11.5 Rebounds: Walter Palmer, 5.4 Assists: James Blackwell...
...British director Tony Palmer's new film, Testimony, dramatizes the view that Shostakovich was a closet dissident who was bitterly resentful of the system that shackled him. In David Rudkin's elegant screenplay, Shostakovich (Ben Kingsley) negotiates his artistic salvation through public acquiescence, gratefully accepting his humiliation at a 1948 Soviet Composers' Union meeting and ritualistically denouncing Stravinsky at a conference the next year in New York City. Always he is haunted by the doom- laden specter of Stalin (Terence Rigby), who is seen thumbing through dossiers while sitting by the telephone, dispatching his opponents to their graves simply...
...Palmer makes little pretense to literalism, preferring to relate the composer's spiritual odyssey through stark images. Shot mostly in gritty black and white, the film often turns phantasmagorical; near the end, the ghost of * Stalin appears to the dying composer and tells him, "I am the enemy you loved." For all Shostakovich's hatred of the dictator, Palmer seems to be saying, without Stalin there would have been no intimate, brooding string quartets, no enigmatic, valedictory Fifteenth Symphony. By giving Shostakovich something to hate and fear, Stalin turned him into a great composer. The symphonies dedicated to the state...
...Barton won't have to do it alone, thanks to junior Walter Palmer, the Big Green's 7-foot center. Palmer's long arms swatted away a league-record 12 shots in a game against Harvard last year, and Dartmouth is hoping he can do it again...
Dartmouth running back David Clark ran for 130 yards and two touchdowns to lead the Big Green to a 24-17 victory over Princeton at Palmer Stadium Saturday in Princeton...