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...details. Think of the old dispute in Northumbria over the correct date of Easter: Starting in the year 627, as the Venerable Bede records, the Celtic and Roman traditions provided two different dates for Easter, and the Northumbrians were left to celebrate Easter twice a year. The queen fasted on a different day than the king; all was chaos and confusion. Eventually, the two competing dates could be reconciled, but only after monks from Italy and Gaul brought to Northumbria the strange teachings of 'arithmetic' and the 'rules of the Egyptians.' [This was before algebra...

Author: By Stephen E. Sachs, | Title: Last Column of the Millennium | 12/19/2000 | See Source »

...most recent trip through the looking glass is pitched for more mature audiences. American McGee's Alice for the PC (EA Games; $50) uses the popular Quake game engine to pay tribute to the classic with spellbinding visuals, witty mind games and gore enough for even the Red Queen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Brief: Dec. 18, 2000 | 12/18/2000 | See Source »

...students would understand this message. For most of them their high school careers were spent avoiding the excesses of popularity in the sake of academics, extracurriculars, even athletics. Not to say that they weren't social or likeable: just that they weren't exactly canvassing for votes for Homecoming Queen. Many of them were focused on getting into a good college, one which would help them reach their goals--for a family, a career, or beyond...

Author: By Vasant M. Kamath, | Title: Down the Path to Willy Loman | 12/15/2000 | See Source »

...play moves through the trials, with Wilde's libel suit ending without resolution, prompting the Queen to bring up charges of "gross indecency" to court, a result of the evidence provided in Wilde's first trial. Between the first and second trial, we flash forward to a scene between a narrator (Dan Rosenthal '02) and Marvin Taylor (Liz Janiak '03), a New York University professor. Taylor makes it easy to laugh at the implications of Wilde's trials, especially given the pretentious delivery that is reminiscent of a bad English lecture. Yet the time warp does not seem...

Author: By Nichole B. Usher, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: An Aestheticist's Anguish | 12/8/2000 | See Source »

...pieces. Among the four men and three women photographers are two of my favorites, David Hilliard and Francesca Woodman. Also represented is Linn Underhill, who uses herself as her own model. She dresses up to look like a debonair of the late '40s, reversing the concept of drag queen to drag king. A portrait of a doll leg by David Levinthal, who takes large-format Polaroids of collectable fetish dolls, is included. A similar interest in surrogate female forms is found in Chris Komater's piece "Turner" (a reference to the film star Lana Turner), an assemblage of 24 photos...

Author: By Lisa Foti-straus, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Something About The Girl AT BERNARD TOALE GALLERY | 12/8/2000 | See Source »

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