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President Neil Rudenstine withdrew in exhaustion. A maladjusted gay man solicited all male undergraduates by post. Racial slurs were spray-painted over the weight room of Mather House...
Equally striking are the banners, designed by spray-paint graffiti artists from Los Angeles and San Francisco, that form the production's sole dacor. Each scene is illustrated by a single pennant, and each act is preceded by a collaborative mural depicting the deeply divided city of Los Angeles before and after a major temblor. Jordan's poetry too is highly accomplished and eminently singable. Although the piece was conceived before the 1994 Northridge quake, the title and title song derive from a memorable remark by a survivor of that disaster and form the show's central metaphor...
...line that will leave moviegoers' bottoms tingling; and it is shot with lots of close-ups of manly jawlines, as if every sailor were posing to be sculpted like the U.S. Presidents onto Mount Rushmore. When in doubt, director Tony Scott (Top Gun, Days of Thunder) lets loose a spray of water, sparks and sweat-the signature flourish of this Helmut Newton of movie machismo...
Part of the reason for repainting, Hamoudi said, was that many of the old murals had been defaced a few years ago by an unknown party on a silver spray-painting spree...
...those who have to face it daily, the Leverett painting serves as something to talk about while eating. Leverett resident Amnon A. Bar-Ilan '96 says that he and his friends spent much of last year "making secret conspiracies to do bad things to the painting. Like spray paint it. Or peel the paint off one blob at a time and see if the master noticed...