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Collins' poetry entices

By Kim Derrick | February 16, 1994

Merle Collins, a poet and novelist from the Caribbean island of Grenada, seduced an audience of about 40 students, professors and administrators yesterday afternoon while reading from her works in the Wren room of Sanborn House. Starting off with a poem called "Seduction," Collins wove a web of awe around her listeners. "Seduction is actually a poem about migration.

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Modern, ancient icons mingle

By Susan Zieger | February 15, 1994

What happens when Thai goddesses, griffins, Egyptian heads, Greek urns and other elements of ancient cultures collide with television sets, cowboys with swirling lassoes, swimming pools and other modern Americana? You get the eerily beautiful art of Susan Morrison, now on display in the Dirt Cowboy Cafe. Morrison mingles icons of antiquity and modernity to produce vivid, collage-like "pasticci" in which one might detect the influence of de Chirico, Giacometti and other Italian surrealists. What makes Morrison's work distinctive is her textured brushstroke and layering of paint that, when peeled and scraped away, lends a time-worn element to the surface, something like a fresco painted "a secco." "It feels like the world is getting smaller," said Morrison, whose extensive world travel resonates in her art.

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World class trombonist to jam with Barbary Coast

By Aditya Dutt | February 10, 1994

Ray Anderson's acrobatic "trombonisms" have been described as "breathtaking, death-defying, highly dramatic and full of grand gestures," by Barbary Coast Jazz Ensemble director Don Glasgo. Glasgo said Anderson is "full of swaggering bravado and undeniable sensitivity, a trombone playing Burt Lancaster in some jazzed-up version of 'Elmer Gantry'." Anderson has won several prestigious awards such as Down Beat magazine's "Talent Deserving Wider Recognition" category in the International Critics Poll and, since 1987, has won the "Best Trombonist" in the International Critics Poll every year until 1993.

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With Campion, conversation is king

By Amanda A. Amann | February 10, 1994

Hanover resident Nardi Campion and her dinner parties have almost become an institution in these parts, but she eschews the idea of herself as a member of high society. Invitations to an evening of good food and conversation at the Campions are prized by family friends and acquaintances at the College who are lucky enough to receive them. For such a little woman, Campion, who has no relation to the store on Main Street, has a high profile in the community. "She has an ability to generate and sustain a conversation that is quite rare.

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Fox TV network to be offered in September

By Jason Casell | February 10, 1994

Students who have long missed out on their favorite Fox network programs will have the opportunity to receive them over satellite beginning next fall. Fox will be available on cable in September, before the beginning of the football season, said Kelly Jones, customer service representative for Twin State Cable, which services New Hampshire and Vermont. The network carries the popular programs "Beverly Hills, 90210," "Melrose Place" and "The Simpsons." Although Fox is available to 95 percent of the country, there has never been an affiliate to serve New Hampshire and Vermont.

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AIDS exhibit at Collis

By Rick Owen | February 9, 1994

What do you know about AIDS? Well if the answer is not very much or even if it isn't, there is an extremely interesting exhibit of posters compiled by RAID (Responsible Aids Information at Dartmouth) on display in the Collis Commonground all day today and tomorrow. The Exhibit is called "Art About AIDS" and contains a variety of posters collected from around the world to educate and sensitize people to the HIV/AIDS crisis.

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Lark Quartet shows promise

By Joe Marcheso | February 7, 1994

The Lark Quartet's concert on Thursday evening in Spaulding Auditorium was a promising performance of a new generation string quartet. They quite competently performed three demanding string quartets: Haydn's Quartet in D major,Beethoven's "Rasumovsky" Quartet in C Major No.3 and a newly commissioned work by Aaron Jay Kernis, "Musica Celestis." In all three pieces, the knowledge of the music produced highly confident playing, especially in the Beethoven, playing both the Andante and the Allegro molto with conviction.

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Movie creates new twist on old theme

By Susan Zieger | February 7, 1994

A film about a pair of crusty backwoods Vermonters of the 1920s (loners who make cedar oil in wooden vats and get around in birch-bark canoes) holds a certain attraction for local theatergoers.

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BUTA presents 'Lawd Have Mercy' by Riddick '95

By Michelle Francois | February 3, 1994

The Black Underground Theater Association and the drama department, will present this term's first 12:30 repertory Theater Production, "Lawd Have Mercy," this Thursday, Friday and Saturday. The play's author, James Riddick '95, first presented his play in 1992 at the end of an introductory drama class. Play director and BUTA Artistic Director Randall Dottin presented a proposal this term to the drama department to include "Lawd Have Mercy" in this term's 12:30 reps spots. "The 12:30 repertory theater program allows students to develop acting and directing skills.

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Marsalis does not disappoint

By Aditya Dutt | February 1, 1994

"And that's kind of our motto...to swing at all cost," declared Wynton Marsalis to the eager crowd of over 600 before his septet began their first set.

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