Word: patronizers
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Alan P. Symonds '69 may be more important to theater fans on this campus than Shakespeare, Chekhov or Stephen Sondheim. Certainly his name appears on more programs year round than do all of these luminaries combined. Symonds isn't a playwright, a director or even a wealthy patron of the arts. But without him, few of the fifty-odd plays and musicals that are performed here each year would ever see an opening night...
...today lives with the specter of annihilation. Saddam threatened to "burn up half of Israel." The Islamic fundamentalist group Hamas, some of whose leaders Israel famously deported to Lebanon, declares that "every Jew and settler will be a target for murder; his blood and possessions are expendable." Meanwhile, Hamas' patron, Iran, is urgently acquiring ballistic missiles and nuclear materials. The destination of these instruments of mass murder is no mystery...
...contrary to popular belief, Sab's patron Hsai says sushi can also be inexpensive...
Clare A. Sammells '95, a two-time patron of the affair, said though last year "more restaurants were represented" and "the displays were more decorative," such details will not keep her away. "Hey," she said, "chocolate is chocolate...
...plot is familiar: a gentle stranger (Carlos Gallardo, who also co- produced) in a tough town; a mysterious woman with a nasty patron; and in 82 minutes, 15 perforated corpses. But that's just the outline. Rodriguez, who's been making films since he was 12, and whose short comedy Bedhead won prizes at 14 festivals, realizes that even splattered blood can get tired if there's no wit and bustle in the execution. His mentors -- Alfred Hitchcock, Sergio Leone, Sam Raimi -- knew how to do it, and Rodriguez is a fast learner. Every shot (of an astounding...