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...Briggs Hall she doesn't actually get much in the way of visions. It is this which prompts her to goto the movies. In the warm, popcorn-smelling dark of a movie theater her mission is always real. An auto da fe at the entrance to the Harvard MTA station seems not out of the question. All that stands between her and sainthood is daylight
...Cold," or the Who's "My Generation" to their recent "Daily Records," and witness the loss of depth in both power and vision wrought by the past 15 years. One problem, paradoxical for this piece, is that the vigilance of reviewers' scrutiny has made pure pop songs, like, say "Da Do Ron Ron" taboo. Groups forced into mixing internal broodings with commercial and critical success wilted, or suffered tragic deaths. American "Top 40" music has since deteriorated to formulaic, dreary soft-rock songs and mindless disco...
...Rudi and I dancing together was not a big deal, but pure tongue-in-cheek fun," says Mikhail Baryshnikov, 33, of his first appearance with Countryman Rudolf Nureyev, 43. Though they are longtime rivals, each responded with a hearty da when Choreographer Paul Taylor suggested that they pair up at the opening night gala for his New York dance company. The result was about as Russian as apple pie. In From Sea to Shining Sea, Taylor's 1965 send-up of American life, Baryshnikov played an office worker and George Washington, while Nureyev portrayed a workman and a Brando...
...switched in an instant. Omnipotence suddenly turns to helplessness, brutality to compassion. The details in these pages arrange themselves into a vivid collage: the painted yellow footprints on which brand-new Marine recruits are told to stand; the puce and canary Braniff jetliners that fly replacements to Da Nang as if it were a trip to Disney World; U.C.L.A. sweatshirts left behind by retreating Viet Cong; the exploding shoeshine box of an urchin-guerrilla; the contoured fiber-glass chairs that give a military morgue the look of a "futuristic barbership"; the computer printout that informs one veteran that...
...influence of Speculum and ensembles like it-the Contemporary Chamber Ensemble and Da Capo Chamber Players-has been obvious. A decade ago, many professors were dismissing new music as a waste of time. Unorthodox techniques like multiphonics (the simultaneous production of more than one note on such normally single-toned instruments as the flute) or reaching into the piano to pluck its strings were considered irrelevant to Bach, Mozart and Brahms. Yet some of the teachers' most talented students were busy reading books like Bruno Bartolozzi's seminal New Sounds for Woodwind, published...