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April 7, 2026
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Arts opportunities at dARTmouth

By John Teti | August 1, 2000

Interested in the arts? In the first week you're here, Dartmouth will try to convince you that the college has endless resource to offer the arts-inclined student. That's not far from the truth, but you're probably better off exploring those resources for yourself, instead of trying to glean anything from freshman orientation week -- during which you'll likely experience such sights as a self-respecting museum curator begging you to visit the Hood and free t-shirts with something along the lines of "dARTmouth" printed on them. Take the initiative during orientation week -- get a feel for the arts Dartmouth has to offer on your own time.

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'Something in the Air' ... reeks of evil

By Kai Cheng Wong | July 31, 2000

"Something in the Air" by Richard Dresser, directed by Mara B. Sabinson opened last Friday, the first of two drama department-sponsored production for this summer. According to the director's notes, "finding this script was a delightful surprise." The delights of this real gem are no surprise at all, for it manages to delve into potent issues about the innate evil in the human nature, whilst sparing its biting critique of contemporary American social mores, excessive cynicism and philosophizing. Set in a large anonymous American city, the dark comedy even manages a non-judgmental lightness of tone and a happy ending despite its serious theme of covetousness, avarice and pure vice that leads eventually to murder. The issues that the play grapples with hit home because the characters' cold superficiality and their mechanical wit, which they unceasingly deploy to deflect moral culpability, finds articulation within the comedy and rings through real. Walker (Jeffrey Withers '02) attempts to murder Cram, an bed-ridden friend, for insurance money.

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'Something in the Air' opens run

By Kathleen McDermott | July 27, 2000

Opening tonight at The Moore Theatre, Richard Dresser's "Something in the Air" is a dark comedy with a mysterious aura, according to the play's Lighting Designer Colin Bills '98. In this play, Walker, a man down on his luck and in need of money, decides to buy the life insurance policy of a terminally ill patient. But as the play progresses, Walker comes to know the patient, Cram.

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The challenge of modern rock

By Abraham Mahshie | July 13, 2000

The sound of modern rock is facing a challenge brought on by its artists and by the increasing popularity of pop music in recent times. Begun by Elvis Presley and continued by the work of The Beatles and Led Zeppelin, the guitar, drums and bass have been the essential components of rock 'n roll.

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'Rocky & Bullwinkle' disappointing blast from the past

By John Teti | July 7, 2000

I don't envy the producers of "The Adventures of Rocky and Bullwinkle"-- if ever there were a TV show that would go kicking and screaming through the transformation into a big-budget, feature-length motion picture, this was it. When we last saw our intrepid heroes, they were the stars of three-minute shorts in a '60s cartoon that featured unyieldingly rapid action, unapologetically sloppy animation and a wit quicker than a flying squirrel (not to mention incredibly bad puns). Any summation of the show -- originally "Rocky and Friends" in 1959, then rechristened "The Bullwinkle Show" in 1961 (an injustice to Rocky fans such as myself) -- must include the obligatory statement that it "worked on multiple levels," only because it accomplished this so well.

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Release of fourth 'Harry Potter' enchants the nation

By Julia Levy | July 5, 2000

Warning: Don't be alarmed if you happen to see groups of four foot wizards and three-and-a-half foot owls strolling down Main Street at midnight this Friday. Like children across the United States, many of Hanover's youngest (and their parents) will be wide awake at 12:01 Saturday morning, when bookstores are officially allowed to start selling "Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire," J.K.

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Pilobolus to perform in Moore

By Julia Levy | June 23, 2000

The inspiration for the dance theater Pilobolus -- which will perform tonight and tomorrow night in the Moore Theatre -- stemmed from a Dartmouth dance class in 1971. The group -- which was named after a sun loving fungus that grows in barnyards and pastures -- started out as a men's quartet, wholly composed of Dartmouth men, and right away drew critical acclaim. "It was rather unusual in those days to have four men as a company," Robby Barnett, one of the group's founding members, who is now one of its artistic directors, told The Dartmouth from the company's Connecticut headquarters. From its beginnings, the group used a collaborative effort of its dancers and directors to create what they call "physical vocabularies." When asked to place Pilobolus' work into a category like ballet or modern dance, Barnett said, "Pilobolus' work is not based on anything." He explained that Pilobolus does not draw from traditions of "codified dance movement," but reached by a process of collective collaboration. "We work together to generate our material," he emphasized. Barnett said the group was self sufficient within a year, with its first performance in New York at the end of December in 1971.

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New Pearl Jam strays from past

By Abraham Mahshie | June 21, 2000

In Pearl Jam's latest album -- its first release in two years -- the compelling force that has traditionally characterized the band, with eruption of song, clashing drums and electric guitar behind a forceful vocal, is too often left adrift in a slowly fading tune whose expectations dwindle to a compromised anticlimax. For "Binaural," 35-year-old Eddie Vedder and his crew -- including former Soundgarden drummer Matt Cameron -- collaborated on writing songs, but retained Vedder's style.

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