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...Joan Scala, a young couple in sales management and owners of a large four-bedroom home in Jamison, Pa., sought help from Dana Noonan of Decorating Den. For $5,000, Noonan finished the dining room with a new rug, a lambrequin over the windows and matching chair cushions, designed a sunny "Florida" solarium adjacent to the newly outfitted family room, and dramatized the guest bathroom with mauve, black and white accents. The Scalas are happy with the result. Says Joan: "I'm saving money in that I count my time as valuable...
...Jerry Jamison's junkyard in rural Weld County, Colo., 40 miles northeast of Denver, is called Tire Mountain. But last week it was easy to confuse it with the Great Smokies. One lightning bolt was all it took to transform Jamison's burial ground for dead treads into a conflagration that spewed a plume of black smoke 9,000 feet into the Rocky Mountain sky. An estimated 2 million tires, 40% of Jamison's inventory, blazed over 20 acres, forcing the temporary evacuation of about 25 families. As scores of fire fighters worked the hoses, a U.S. Forest Service plane...
Although it is possible to switch colleges between years, very few students choose to take this option housing officers say. Freshman Jamison Williams, a member of the housing committee at Yale's Ezra Stiles College, says that this year only eight students of the college's 400 had transferred out of Stiles, which students describe as one of Yale's least-likes colleges...
...PIECE THAT Ailey choreographed in 1971 to music by Alice Coltrane, Laura Nyre and Chuck Griffin, "Cry" was performed poignantly by Deborah Manning, but suffered from the absence of the strength of dancer Judith Jamison. Ailey created the dance "for all Black women everywhere--especially our mothers," and it moves slowly and somberly from expressions of anguish and suffering to ones of triumph, hope and energy. Although Manning executed the steps beautifully, she lacked the stage presence necessary to transmit the messages implicit in "Cry"--fear, anger and the struggle of Black women...
...next work, "Divining", had its Boston premiere Wednesday night. Judith Jamison, a former Ailey dancer, choreographed this magnetic piece to music by Kimati Dimizulu and Monti Ellison. The music alternated between loud, whisting melodies and constant drum rhythms. The starkness of the beating drum focused all attention on the dancer's movements. In contrast to the first piece. Divining" was a study of movement that is nonetheless just as captivating...