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Across the lobby, a group of bricks on the floor shoot up tall waving poles crowned by ruby-red wax lips. Like Mergel's sculptures, "Bricks, Stalks, Lips" by Daniel O. Williams '98 toys with the distinction between the figurative and the abstract. Though economically constructed of the most mundane...

Author: By Scott Rothkopf, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Breaking the Mold | 12/12/1997 | See Source »

The study, which rated Swedes most "literate" and Poles least, also cited America's high dropout rates as a contributor, but noted that education was no guarantee that an American adult could handle tasks like deciphering a bus schedule or calculating the interest on their mortgage. Isn't there a...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Johnny's Dad Can't Read Either | 12/10/1997 | See Source »

All its creativity, technical perfection and cumulative power aside, what really makes Stomp work moment-to-moment is the power and energy of its performers. This is contact dancing--a wrong move can occasionally lead to an impact injury--and it's no-holds-barred drumming as well. The musical...

Author: By Susannah R. Mandel, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Eat This, Michael Flatley: 'Stomp' Rolls In | 11/14/1997 | See Source »

In the '90s, we oscillate between two moral poles. The left brain says, "Nothing human is foreign to me," a dictum that floats in like elegant driftwood from the second century B.C., when the Roman playwright Terence said it. The line describes the ideal state of today's movie and...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A BOY DIES IN THE '90S | 10/20/1997 | See Source »

Like the Pietasters horn section, the Slackers trumpet and saxophone lay down a steady beat and background ska tone. While shining on occasional solos, the musicianship of the Slackers is most apparent on a pair of superb instrumentals, "Cooking for Tommy" and "Tin Tin Deo," that mark the album's...

Author: By Sumeet Garg, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Throwing Away The Pie, Picking Up the Slack | 10/17/1997 | See Source »

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