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...list of past performers, which includes such names as Tai Babilonia and Randy Gardner, Dorothy Hamill, Scott Hamilton and Robin Cousins, is certainly impressive, and the organizers of this year's show have compiled an equally impressive skating slate...
...full of feudal warfare and knightly swordplay. But Wilson, whose career has included such mesmerizing efforts as Einstein on the Beach and the CIVIL warS, avoids conventional stage action, particularly the use of arms and hands. So this is a slo-mo Lohengrin with formalized gestures that recall tai chi. In place of the banks of the River Scheldt are huge, gradually shifting columns of light. It is a tribute to Wilson's dramatic cunning that the production is a striking success. The stylized motion and lighting intensify the visceral excitement in the score and heighten the stark contest between...
...weren't for that, the Judiciary Committee might have found a way to evaluate Professor Anita Hill's charges against Judge Clarence Thomas confidentially. But it was easier to consign her to the category of she- devils, like Fanne Foxe, Elizabeth Ray, Tai Collins, Donna Rice, who rise from a public official's past to bring down a man simply for being, well, a man. In this postgraduate Skull and Bones, most of whose members hardly need to worry where their next million is coming from, it is hard to empathize with someone worried enough about her career that...
Sadly, tribal peoples often realize they are losing something of value too late to save it. In the village of Tai, in the Ivory Coast, three brothers from a prosperous family have tried to balance respect for the practices of their Guere tribe with careers in the modern economy. Yet their mother, an esteemed healer, has not been able to pass on her learning. One brother said he wanted to know about the plants she used but was afraid to ask because she would think he had foreseen her death -- the traditional time to pass on knowledge. Another brother would...
...Tai Wong '92 was the one who picked "#2" in the Mather House senior lottery. There was no question, he says, which suite he and his room-mates would choose...