Word: subjects
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...concerned with the Chinese experience. On Broadway, David Henry Hwang's M. Butterfly explores the boundaries of power, sex and race. In Amy Tan's The Joy Luck Club, published last month, Chinese mothers offer their children a series of poignant confessionals. China's repressive Cultural Revolution is the subject of a forthcoming autobiographical novel, A Generation Lost, by Zi-Ping Luo. The Chinese immigrant, now a professor of chemistry at Caltech, was 14 when the Red Guards closed her school...
...gathered for their big show, the computer-graphics experts had special reason to celebrate. Late last month two of their own, John Lasseter and William Reeves of Pixar, a computer manufacturer in San Rafael, Calif., won the first Academy Award given for a totally computer-generated film -- a short subject called Tin Toy that starred a rambunctious baby and a windup music man. Says Jaron Lanier, founder of VPL Research, a small Redwood City, Calif., company that makes the equipment used to help people enter a computer-generated world: "This is the year that this stuff is finally starting...
This play, based on the story of the famous Scopes Monkey Trial, treats the subject of teaching evolution and creationism in schools. If you took Justice last semester, you saw a portion of the Scopes trial in class--if you were there. If not, you can see the whole thing this weekend at Lowell House in a modern rendition of a philosophical dispute that continues to this...
...added that she was unclear whether the resolution was sent with the committee's recommendation, and that sending the issue to council was a way of monitoring student opinion on the subject...
...British soccer fans, last week's tragedy could not have come at a more inopportune time. Only four days earlier the U.E.F.A. had decided to re-admit English clubs in the 1990-91 season, subject to British government approval...