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...Buried Child. Sam Shepard's work has been overpraised so often that this Broadway revival of his 1978 play about a psychotically dysfunctional family was a startling discovery. In Gary Sinise's high-energy staging, Shepard seems more focused, his sense of black comedy more sure, than ever before or since...
...there's more to Recovering the Satellites than celebrity kiss-and-telling and post-fame grouching. The second half of the album offers more complex themes. The pop-soul track, Another Horsedreamer's Blues, draws from a surprising source for musical inspiration: the Sam Shepard play Geography of a Horse Dreamer. In the song, a little girl with the ability to foresee horse-race winners in her dreams is manipulated and used by those around her--a metaphor for the use and abuse of artistic talent...
Stanford University Director of Communications Terry Shepard said in the Monday edition of the Stanford Daily that he does not agree that universities are influenced in their decisions by the rankings but did say that he supports the students' efforts...
...wish [them] well," Shepard told the Daily. "All of the schools at the top of that list are excellent schools, and to try to distinguish between them by tenths of points is impossible. You can't statistically capture the qualities of a university...
Turning off Garden Street onto Shepard Street, the Quad comes into view suddenly and startlingly: a wide-open space framed by classically Harvardian red-brick buildings, a mirage in the dense residential area that surrounds it. Bertram Hall is on the corner; it is older than most of the River Houses and originally held 12 Radcliffe women in grand style. The curved staircase rising from the front door, the stained glass windows and the fire-escape balconies on each landing still make it one of the best places to live on campus...