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...director does create a few inspired and captivating images. The knights vie for Thaisa as hockey-masked, business-suited drag racers; the final act heightens Pericles' dejection by portraying him as a dirty bearded Howard Hughes bum in a box: a single swinging light on a black stage conjures a violent storm. And the opening, with narrator Brother Blue emerging from a turquoise pool of light and fog, works well. Simple scenes in the hands of Sellars can become striking: the discovery of Thaisa's coffin by villagers plays hauntingly, though many other poignant scenes fall flat. Background music takes...
...addition of one scholar clearly cannot go far in bolstering the College's paltry women's studies offerings. Only a few departments--such as Afro-American Studies, which now offers a course on Black women writers--have risen to the call. And, that so few departments bothered to vie for the new slot does not augur well for the futures of this grassroots approach...
Officials say past history indicates that the council faces an unusually difficult task in erasing such a do-nothing legacy. The council must not only produce more than positive, visible changes in student life, they say. In seeking long-term support and attention, the government also must vie with better established extracurricular organizations--such as publications, drama societies, and athletic teams--that have traditionally proven the activities of choice on campus...
While four of their teammates vie to represent the U S. Greg Chalmers and Shayne Kuklowicz (both still under grads) accepted invitations to the Canadian Olympic tryouts now being held in Toronto Goalie Grant Blair also received an invitation but declined to participate...
Although all students must traverse this proselytizing gauntlet, the experience can be particularly bewildering for the College's approximately 400 Black students. No less than eight active Black organizations vie for these students' time, often offering entirely different ways for Blacks to involve themselves in the community...