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...people on the list represent just about every occupation, background and state of activity within the academic world that you can imagine," Gray said...

Author: By Vasugi V. Ganeshananthan and Joshua E. Gewolb, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERSS | Title: 400 Make List For Next Univ. President | 10/16/2000 | See Source »

...reaching an immediate confrontation with her subjects. One of her last images, "Hartley and Andrew" (1983), depicts her son and grandson. Both father and child are outlined in blue, as was Neel's habit at the time; seated on a stool, they stare not out, but into the viewer. Background is eliminated or, rather, Neel chooses the gessoed canvas for her background, as she does in many of these late works. This is the ultimate demonstration of self-confidence: Neel lets her sitters emerge from the raw canvas, sometimes leaving large amounts of space unmarked, as though saying...

Author: By Lisa Foti-straus, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Go Ask Alice: Alice Neel's telling portraits of friends, family and art-world types | 10/13/2000 | See Source »

While the album isn't a breakout masterpiece, Francine is a band that knows what its listeners want-quirky background songs that sound happy but have morbid depressing lyrics. Forty on a Fall Day would be a better album if it were shorter and more inventive, but count Francine as one more contribution to the seemingly endless supply of indie...

Author: By Arts Staff, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: New Albums | 10/13/2000 | See Source »

...experiment, given the mix of straight theater, straight dance and abstract movement theater. On a technical level, engineered and live sound, video and creative lighting and set design will be integrated into the production. The performance will most likely be precise and well-directed, given Kaye's South African background and the emotional importance the piece has to her own life...

Author: By By IRINA Serbanescu, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Spotlight | 10/13/2000 | See Source »

...sensing confusion, so let me explain and give some background for all of you non-'Canes fans...

Author: By Daniel E. Fernandez, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Tenacious D: Hurricanes Nostalgia | 10/12/2000 | See Source »

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