Word: rooms
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Wedged under a heavy corner of Adams House in the piped labyrinth of the basement there are two unmarked wooden doors. Behind them, three or four rooms wind inwards like the chambers of a shell. They are cluttered with odd implements--worn-wood museum pieces with too many handles and big, gripless screws. There are empty racks and cupboards full of metals. There is a smell of deepening rubber. And nested in the inner room, there is the press...
...This kind of project is extremely time-consuming. Every letter is picked from innumerable drawers of type to be strung into a line on a 'composing stick'. Almost all the surfaces in the room are piled under with tiny spears of lead, each tipped with its own character. The tables look beset by a plague of silver locusts. When the letters have been collected they are laid flat on the bed of the press, where the text is meticulously spaced out and held together by flat strips of metal called 'furniture'. The arrangements of this spacing material form the almost...
...doubling dialogue and repeating each other with static variations. Coupled with the aimless chatter of the Stenographer (Kate Agresta '02) and the Telephone Girl (Thandi Parris '01), an environment of alienation is complete. Everything about this world is artificial, including the commotion when Helen (Erica Rabbit '00) enters the room. The boss has a strange affinity for her and her hands, despite her neurotic and repressed personality...
Despite being a contest against a top-rival, this is a non-conference game so Mazzoleni has some room to experiment with new combinations and not jeopardize his team's ECAC standing...
Stephen Schwartz, a four-time Oscar winner who has worked on projects including "The Prince of Egypt," "Godspell, and Disney's version of "The Hunchback of Notre Dame," offered a class on song composition for his audience of 100 in the Adams House Lower Common Room yesterday afternoon...