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Company delights with irreverent jokes

By Jess McCarter | October 9, 1996

I am still in pain as I write this. The Reduced Shakespeare Company's performance last night of "The Bible: The Complete Word of God (abridged)" was humor at its finest, deftly combining physical with more traditional comedy. I literally threw my back out laughing along with the rest of the audience. This is the same group who wrote the amazingly funny "The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (abridged)." The name, though, is a leftover from the group's origins at Renaissance Fairs where they performed during the early 1980's.

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Film looks at gay porn

By Michael Borden | October 9, 1996

"Super 8 1/2" is the tale of a washed-up porno star (Bruce La Bruce) "rediscovered" by an underground avant-garde lesbian filmmaker, Googie (Liza LaMonica) who wants to make a documentary about him titled "Bruce." He thinks that this is his big comeback, but she is only using him to finance her pet project, "Submit to My Finger," a tribute to underground film auteur, Richard Kern. Bruce, a former director, spends his time on his "alcholidays" in bed with his hustler boyfriend Pierce (Klaus Von Brucker), who supports the two of them by his "profession," (the oldest one). The film doesn't hide the fact that it's a gay porn flick, but with off-the-wall humor.

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Tool defies music categorization

By Arvid Nelson | October 9, 1996

Tool utterly defies classification. Is the band alternative? Clearly not. "Alternative music is jocks with punk rock haircuts," Tool's vocalist Maynard James Keenan said. Heavy metal perhaps?

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Theater company abridges the Good Book

By Jack Vaitayanonta | October 8, 1996

The Reduced Shakespeare Company, one of the world's best-known touring comedy troupes, will perform its hilarious repertoire of condensed versions of religious, political and literary classics at a sold-out show tonight. The group has many targets for its material.

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'Twin Houses,' festival finale, probes human psyche

By Joseph Scott | October 7, 1996

The Hopkins Center's Festival of International Puppetry came to a close this weekend with a performance of "Twin Houses" by the Compagnie Nicole Mossoux/Patrick Bonte. And what a finale it was. The performance, the work of Nicole Mossoux and Patrick Bonte of Belgium, consisted of several scenes involving Mossoux and one or more exceedingly life-like mannequin-size puppets. "Twin Houses" was a portrayal of the effects upon the human psyche of the numerous, and often contradictory, impulses and ideas that control our lives.

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Motherwell's painting marks a new era in American art

By Kelly Sidley | October 3, 1996

While students affiliated with the art history and studio art departments regularly venture to the Hood Museum of Art, most students admit that they have never visited the museum, or have only been inside very briefly. That may be unfortunate because they may miss an opportunity to view the painting of an innovative twentieth-century American artist. The most recent acquisition of the Modern and Contemporary Arts collection hangs in the main foyer of the second floor. Robert Motherwell's abstract expressionist piece titled "Chambre d'Amour" (1958) offers a wonderful example of work by the New York School of artists during the time their paintings were becoming widely accepted and admired by the general public. A new school of thought The New York School developed into a fortified group of starving artists, many of them immigrants, after the Second World War.

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Film series continues with Kelly classic

By Rachel Federman | October 2, 1996

"Singin' in the Rain," an all-time American classic, will be shown at 6:45 and 9:15 p.m. tonight as part of the Dartmouth Film Society's series "Reflections." This is a unique opportunity for many students to view a work that is a part of our cinematic heritage. Directed by Stanley Donen and Gene Kelly, this film is so famous you may forget if you've actually seen it. Perhaps you may have experienced it through clips of the film or heard it alluded to in other ground-breaking films like "The Clockwork Orange" and "North by Northwest." The picture of Kelly swinging on a lamp post, soaking wet and thrilled with life, is perhaps a cinematic reference point.

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Danagerous cord found along mountain path

By Elysa Jacobs | October 2, 1996

Cailin Nelson '97 discovered a wire stretched across a mountain bicycle path near Sachem Pond on Saturday morning, which poses a potential hazard to mountain bicycle riders. Nelson removed the cord, which she found stretched across the trail up to Boston Lot Lake, when she discovered it, she wrote in an e-mail message. Dartmouth Outing Club mountain bicycle instructor Mike Silverman expressed concern about the condition of the trail. "If a person gets pulled off their bike they could hit their head," Silverman said.

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'Spitfire Grill' expands quality of roles for women

By R. D. Rees | October 1, 1996

Quality women's roles in Hollywood today are few and far between. In response to this dearth of female parts, independent films often feature believable, complex parts for actresses to really sink their teeth into. "The Spitfire Grill" is one such film, starring three powerhouse performances by women. After the film won the coveted Audience Award at last year's Sundance Film Festival, Castle Rock Entertainment bought the rights to "The Spitfire Grill" for a record sum, the highest for an independent film to date. In order to help defer the cost of the film, Castle Rock accepted an investment from a production company known as Gregory Productions, the for-profit arm of the Roman Catholic Church. Though not a religious movie per se, Gregory Productions certainly would approve of the themes of redemption and healing, as well as the subtle pro-life message. "The Spitfire Grill" is the story of Perchance Talbot, a woman just released from a Maine prison for manslaughter.

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DFS reveals similarities in two films

By Keith Zorn | September 30, 1996

The Dartmouth Film Society's Fall term series continued on Friday with a triple feature that included "Manhunter," a film which is now best known as a precursor and model for "Silence of the Lambs" (1991). Though there are minor differences in characterization and tone, in their story lines the two films are essentially the same: a psychopathic and cannibalistic serial killer is pursued by a young F.B.I.

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Olodum shows social awareness in music

By Jack Vaitayanonta | September 26, 1996

Bonded by the dual purposes of creating an innovative rhythm and forging a cultural and societal bond, the Afro-Brazilian percussion group Olodum will appear tonight in Spaulding Auditorium. Olodum (pronounced oh-lo-DOOM) uses rhythm, melody and folklore to create a societal bond that fosters the individual and collective self-worth by providing a cultural point of reference from which to be inspired and grow, according to Music Professor Hafiz Shabazz. The group's name is the shortened form of the Yoruba word olodumare, translated into English as God of Gods or God Almighty. Shabazz wrote in the journal Bossa, a Brazilian jazz music guide, that the group is an important unifying force in Brazil through both its music and community service, especially for Afro-Brazilians. Their sound is samba-reggae.

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