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...life of Peter H. Wilson, a senior and a vibrant member of the Harvard community who died two weeks ago, was celebrated in an hour-long memorial service Saturday in the Dunster House Library...
...weeks from now, when a South Korean athlete carries a flame kindled in Greece, the fountainhead of democracy, into Seoul's Olympic stadium, the host country will have more to show off than a vibrant economy: it will be able to point to an astonishing political accomplishment. In little more than a year, the South Koreans, ever the industrious builders, have torn down the rigid structure of an authoritarian regime and constructed in its stead a brash new democracy. As is obvious to anyone who has watched the images of student demonstrations and political protest flicker across a television screen...
...Comedy and The Color of Money, he has made his own kind of buddy movie. Two men are bound by love or hate; one must betray the other and thereby help certify his mission. In the Nikos Kazantzakis novel and Paul Schrader's script, Scorsese has found a story vibrant with melodrama and metaphor. This Jesus (Willem Dafoe) is not God born as man. He is a man who discovers -- or invents -- his own divinity. And he is both tormented and excited by the revelation. This Judas (Harvey Keitel) is a strong, loving activist. He wants to overthrow the Roman...
...things do it better than the vibrant Latin palette: jewel colors of ruby, emerald, luscious purples, used with black or mixed together. Ofelia Montejano, 30, an up-and-comer in the Los Angeles fashion world, weaves her favorite colors -- fuchsia, chartreuse and orange -- into her fabrics with yards of colored ribbon sewn onto black taffeta. "Using bright colors this way draws on my heritage," she says. "When I was a girl in Michoacan, Mexico, I admired the way even the poorest people made use of color. They take raw color and use it in a very honest...
These emotionally vibrant, and frequently violent, images come from an emerging cadre of playwrights who are perhaps the most eagerly cultivated new voices in the American theater. Like blacks a generation ago, Hispanics have become the ethnic group of the moment, both off-Broadway and at many of the nation's foremost regional theaters. From Manhattan's Public Theater through the Milwaukee Repertory Theater to the Los Angeles Theater Center, they are using their new ascendancy to reach main stages and middle-class white audiences...