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Dean of the Faculty Jeremy R. Knowles' annual budget letter may not make the most enthralling spring break reading, but Harvard's faculty and students would be wise to take his words to heart as they head for sunnier climes...
...take the new (or formerly-new) ideas and build, over and over again, appealing works, or songs, out of them. In this category, for example, are the Dentists, whose songs, tightly constructed out of leftover psychedelic-poptechniques and clean--lined New Wave guitar moves, have been circulating through the sunnier regions of England (if there are any) for about nine years. After sowing their whimsical tunes all over the English--speaking world and Belgium, the Dentists have finally reaped a major--label contract. To my mild and delighted surprise, their big label hasn't changed them a bit: they...
...BOTTOM LINE: A classic of rural Irish life proves equally entertaining, if sunnier, transported to the Caribbean...
Luckily, the sunnier day of the weekend warmed up the Crimson bats as Harvard beat Fordham 7-6, 6-3 in New York Sunday...
...Scarborough by yet another debut, Body Language. All three are characteristically bleak and acidulous comedies staged by the author himself. The conventional wisdom about Ayckbourn has been that he started as a boulevard farceur and turned darker in the course of his 39 plays. Yet Absurd, from supposedly sunnier days in 1971, shows that acutely observed misery and hypocrisy have been his comic subjects all along. The funniest scene depicts desperate attempts at suicide by a deranged housewife, brilliantly played by Jennifer Wiltsie, that are cheerily misunderstood by a passel of busybody "friends." Body Language posits a scientific mishap that...