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...like you've stepped into the famous da Vinci painting: a beaming Jesus presides over the meal from the middle of the table, with Judas the traitor seated on his left and faithful Simon (boyish good looks and all) seated on his right. But this is no Italian basilica--this is the Currier dining hall, and Jesus (Jeffery E. Fowler '01) is complaining about the service, Judas (Ryan P. Shrime '00) is cracking off-color jokes, and one of the apostles (but not Simon, played by Stefan H. Atkinson '03) is still nursing a hangover. Grab some of His body...

Author: By By ANKUR Ghosh, | Title: Jesus Christ Superstar, A Work in Progress: Supping With the Savior | 11/12/1999 | See Source »

...have an 8-ft. bronze Leonardo da Vinci horse in Grand Rapids, Mich. [Letters, Oct. 18], but we also have a 24-ft. version, just like the Leonardo horse in Milan, Italy. In fact, ours is not even a copy. It was cast at the same time as the Milan horse; all the parts of the two statues are interchangeable. And thanks to philanthropist Fred Meijer, our horse provides a hands-on art experience for those who visit--art you can walk right up to and touch (not mounted on a pedestal like the one in Milan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Nov. 8, 1999 | 11/8/1999 | See Source »

...various architectural elements strewn about the dressing-room, the missing coats of paint--they're immaterial. Giasone already has a brilliant set: the violins, gut-strung and armed with baroque bows. The theorbos, or chitarrones, their halved-pear bodies flowering into tall, lyrical stalks. The melancholy viola da gamba and the haunting lirone shaped like early venuses. The blockflutes, the recorders with their warm and woody sound. The tiny baroque guitar, cradled like a courageous lap-dog, and the harpsichords, the harpsichords: banquet tables of the basso-continuo; two banks of oars pulling across the river...

Author: By Jérôme L. Martin, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Baroque Fixed in Giasone | 11/5/1999 | See Source »

...mess with Harvard students! Recently, two perps found out the hard way that undergrads here can bring da ruckus. Here, profiles of the two crime fighters...

Author: By J.a. Rubin, | Title: Fifteen Minutes: Whatcha Gonna Do When They Come For You? | 10/28/1999 | See Source »

...incidents are still under investigation," said HUPD spokeswoman Peggy A. McNamara. "Whatever evidence we find may still be presented to the DA," she said...

Author: By Garrett M. Graff, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Suspected Yard Burglar Pleads Not Guilty | 10/27/1999 | See Source »

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