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...have come home to roost...

Author: By Joshua A. Kaufman, | Title: Ruling the Roost | 9/19/1997 | See Source »

While Stage is wary of the "pink chicken," the grilled chicken breast ruled the roost as far as Harvard students were concerned...

Author: By Caitlin E. Anderson, | Title: FEEDBACK | 5/23/1997 | See Source »

...women and the sequin-covered glitz of the two chorus girls, the costumes set the tone of the decade and the club music scene. The sets included black and white backdrops of New York City streets and the interior of many of the clubs including Birdland and The Royal Roost. There was constant changing of props from saxophones to trumpets, which the dancers actually carried throughout some of the sequences. There was a high degree of interaction between the dancers and the props: The dancers rolled over, sat on, and kicked off of numerous chairs, stools and benches that filled...

Author: By Christiana Briggs, | Title: Alvin Ailey Dazzles & Delights | 5/1/1997 | See Source »

...Microsoft), Clark saw a way to put that data-crunching power to work visualizing information ranging from aircraft fluid dynamics to rampaging velociraptors, then founded the company that made it happen. Fourteen years, 7,200 employees and $2.2 billion in annual revenues later, Silicon Graphics rules its own lucrative roost...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TIME 25: THEY RANGE IN AGE FROM 31 TO 67 | 6/17/1996 | See Source »

Other winners included Catherine S. Robe '96 for "On The World's Stage: Nellie Bly and Nineteenth-Century Stunt Reporting"; Jennifer Roost '96 for "Calories Controlled: An Improved Approach to the Psychopharmacological Manipulation of Alcohol Preference in an Animal Model"; Angela A. Sun '96 for "For the Right to Be Heirs: An Examination of the New Territories Laid (Exemption) Ordinance as a Case Study of Gender Politics, Village Unity and the Law"; Jennifer T. Sun '96 for "The Fournier Transform in Computational Learning Theory"; Rachel K. Teukolsky '96 for "'Brief Exposures': Photography as a Thematic and Technique in Joyce...

Author: By Sarah E. Scrogin, | Title: Hoopes Prizes Awarded for Theses | 5/22/1996 | See Source »

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