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...traditional images of Old Nassau However, students say Fitzgerald's carefree mixture of youth and affluence appears rarely in their experiences as Princeton undergraduates, in part because they simply do not have the time. "We work awfully hard," said senior Kathy Levy Unlike other schools where the workload might taper off in the senior year. Princeton's academic demands become significantly heavier in the junior and senior years. All students, except a few engineers, are required to write two junior papers, or "J.P's," and do a thesis in their senior year...
...same imagery recurs, in a slightly more distanced way, in her big room environment, Confrontation, 1978. Here the viewer is excluded from the central table, which is strewn with breasts, remnants of latex-covered food and other morsels, by a ring of white wooden boxes. These taper toward the top and, like versions of the dolmens in archaic ritual sites, press to be read as abstracted effigies of the human figure: a ring of watchers, backs shutting out the audience, absorbed in an obscure ritual...
...Equity-scale company. Now, with the new Globe, the Carter and a new 620-seat outdoor stage, it has one of the best complexes in the U.S. Artistic Director Jack O'Brien has ambitious plans to make San Diego an important theatrical center, a rival of the Mark Taper Forum in Los Angeles and the American Conservatory Theater in San Francisco. That will take both time and effort, but O'Brien and his company have made a more than promising begining
...there were 368 professional productions in Los Angeles. Last year there were 573 and, by all indications, the number this year should be well over 600. "We are building new audiences, getting people into the habit of going to the theater," says Gordon Davidson, artistic director of the Mark Taper. "Broadway plays wait for an audience; if the audience doesn't come, the play closes. The Taper audience has been nurtured to wait with plays from their beginning...
Indeed, the actors can claim most of the credit for the theatrical boom. The Taper Forum and the big Broadway road shows have given Southern Californians a taste for live performances, but the actors have given them such wide choices. Under pressure from its rank and file, Actors' Equity in 1972 agreed to let members work for free in theaters that seat no more than 99 people. There have since been hundreds of such so-called waiver productions-423 last year alone...