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Mummenschanz appeals to younger generations

By Shay Lawrence | January 14, 1997

Mummenschanz, the celebrated visual theatre trio entertained both young and old last night at the Moore Theater in the Hopkins Center with a combination of mime, dance, puppetry and visual trickery. Founded in the early 1970's, Mummenschanz has appeared throughout the Americas, Europe, the former Soviet Union, Japan and Israel.

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TMBG latest release disappoints

By Arvid Nelson | January 9, 1997

How does one define the sound of pop group "They Might Be Giants?" The only answer may be to play one of their albums. The enigmatic, category-defying pop group "They Might Be Giants" continues to amuse and befuddle in their sixth and most recent release, "Factory Showroom," out on Elektra Records. Indeed, the pair have taken on a number of tenuous band members, including drummer Brian Doherty, bass player Graham Maby and guitarist Eric Schermerhorn, late of David Bowie and Iggy Pop. The band has a mercurial style, changing mood, sound and general subject matter on each track.

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Artist to present poetry

By Kelly Sidley | January 9, 1997

If you are looking for a warm diversion in the midst of the latest blast of bone-chilling weather to sweep through the Upper Valley, a reading by the poet Lucie Brock-Broido is sure to warm the soul this Thursday evening. The Department of English and the Ralph Samuel Poetry Fund present a reading by the author of "The Master Letters" and "A Hunger." The metaphysical nature of her poems have been compared to other female poets such as Emily Dickinson, Sylvia Plath, and Elizabeth Bishop.

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Delano's photographis engage community through art

By Antony Hudek | January 8, 1997

An impressive crowd gathered yesterday in Loew Auditorium to hear Pablo Delano, a photographer and this term's artist-in-residence at the Hopkins Center, speak about his life, his art and his hopes. Delano will be teaching photography for the next two terms here at Dartmouth, and a selection of his recent photographs is now on view in the Jaffe-Friede gallery at the Hop until Feb.

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'The English Patient' scores with audiences

By Robert D. Rees | January 6, 1997

There is no question that our culture adores love stories. Romance novels crowd our bookstore shelves and romance films, from the good "Jerry Maguire" to the pitiful "Black Day, Blue Night," stake their claims at the cineplexes.

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'Cinema Paranoia' strikes campus

By Michael A> Posey | January 6, 1997

Featuring such blockbusters as this summer's alien-bashing hit "Independence Day" and Roman Polanski's horror classic "Rosemary's Baby," the Dartmouth Film Society hopes its newest installment of veritable Hollywood classics and new-age flicks will cause as much hysteria as its title suggests, "Cinema Paranoia." This term's venue offers a cinematic panorama of films which plays on audiences' phobias and also caricatures some of our more outrageous fears. Michael Ellenberg '97 and Mobina Hashmi '96 suggested the theme after watching "The Invasion of the Body Snatchers" a film in this term's series.

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Workshop preserves art of book making

By Jake Elberg | November 27, 1996

Tucked away in the lower level of Baker Library, in a corner few students have ever entered, lies one of the College's lesser-known treasures -- a room dedicated to the art of traditional book making. In this room work a handful of artists dedicated to the craft of book making.

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Hanover Police helps to maintain vigil in Hanover

By David Kung | November 27, 1996

Hanover Police maintained vigilant control over students at football games this fall, but the New Hampshire Civil Liberties Union claims police removal and arrest of students during intercollegiate football games is illegal. The NHCLU said Hanover Police are also acting improperly by arresting and fining students who rush the field and that field rushing should be handled as a College matter. Imbibing at College football games The debate surrounding the Hanover Police's jurisdiction over students' imbibing at football games centers on one's definition of "interscholastic." Police claim the term applies to colleges, but the NHCLU claims it only applies to high schools. Hanover Police Chief Nick Giaccone said Hanover Police's searching the football stands are enforcing state statute 571-C:2, which prohibits intoxicating beverages at interscholastic athletic contests. But Claire Ebel, executive director of the NHCLU, said the law is "absolutely inapplicable to any athletic event that occurs at Dartmouth College." Ebel said there is a difference between interscholastic and intercollegiate athletic contests. The statue "refers to interscholastic athletic events, not intercollegiate athletic events," she said.

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Pilobolus shows skill in dance, movement

By Jess McCarter | November 27, 1996

Pilobolus (Pil-AH-bo-les) is a noun defined in Webster's Dictionary as "an absolutely amazing dance troupe, capable of creating the illusion of motion when still and stillness when in motion." The dance troupe Pilobolus, which is more than deserving of its definition, gave an astounding program of dance and movement at the Moore Theater last night. The show began with a piece entitled "Aeros," one of Pilobolus' newer routines.

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LeWitt's Conceptualist art raises questions of ownership

By Kelly Sidley | November 26, 1996

The Romantic idea that an artist is an inspired genius who communicates part of his soul through his visual, literary or musical creations incorporates an autobiographical element into the creation process. But conceptual artist Sol LeWitt is anything but a Romantic.

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Doumbia, WMPE to perform tongiht

By Aditya Dutt | November 26, 1996

Abdoul Doumbia, a professional drummer who has been playing since he was five, will perform with his own trio as well as the World Music Percussion ensemble tonight in Spaulding Auditorium. Doumbia, an accomplished professional drummer, completed 16 years of apprenticeship under Moriba Keita, moving on to work with a number of companies in Mali including the 47-member troupe, Babemba, and participating in the National Drum Festival of Mali as the representative of his region for eight consecutive years. In an interview with The Dartmouth, the director of the WMPE, Hafiz Shabazz, said Doumbia was "very traditional in terms of technique." "His playing is fast, compelling and powerful," Shabazz said.

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