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...dumpsite. In the past few years, her work has routinely been damaged. And a controversial mural on a traffic rotary near Walden Street, for which artist Wen-ti Tsen was reportedly paid $10,000 by the CAC, has been covered with pink paint. Though this is an unusual spike, it’s part of a more unusual trend: the amount of vandalism specifically directed at art pieces in Cambridge has been on the rise over the past five years, according to the director and conservator for public arts at the CAC.Yet the police rarely become involved, nor does there...
...races. Each house election—with the exception of the Dudley campaign—was contested, with three or more candidates on the ballot. Last year’s race saw 86 students running for four dozen spots and featured many non-competitive elections. The cause of the spike in the competition was twofold. First, the trimmed-down UC—now comprising two committees, not three—cut seats on the council by one third. Second, more incumbents decided to run for UC—52 percent of UC members are incumbents this year, whereas last year...
...servant who shuffles and sings.” He refuses indignantly, and accepts instead Ice Cube’s offer to go watch the 1973 blaxploitation classic “‘Black Caesar’ back at the crib.” In his verse, Kane extols Spike Lee as a model of how the black community can “make our own movies,” instead of being reduced to playing “butlers, maids, slaves and hoes” in Hollywood films. He disparages the success of films like “Driving...
...Until the late '50s, popular British humor came from the working class. Spike Milligan, Peter Sellers and Harry Secombe, the Goons whose wild radio comedy enthralled all classes (Prince Charles was a particular fan), had never gone near a university. That changed with Beyond the Fringe, a comedy revue written by and starring four recent graduates from Cambridge (Peter Cook and Jonathan Miller) and Oxford (Alan Bennett and Dudley Moore). Quite a few shapers of the national smile over the next decade or so were Oxonians, like the creators of the influential satirical magazine Private Eye, who had first convened...
...Flying Circus days. He wants everyone in the theater to get it, get it? This is clear from the show's brief overture, with oompah tubas and tiptoeing xylophones practically poking the audience in the ribs to announce what follows will be musical comedy stopping just short of a Spike Jones all-out aural assault...