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New program introduced on WDCR

By Michael A> Posey | July 3, 1996

As if there were not enough entertainment news to go around, 1340 WDCR the AM college radio station has begun a new program titled "Entertainment Blitz" designed to bring the world of arts and entertainment to busy students' lives. Initiated last term, the program is the brainchild of the Dartmouth Nightly News Service. "It is our own little version of Entertainment Tonight," said Heather Charles '98, co-anchor of the Entertainment Blitz program. Recruited for the position this term, Charles was approached for the position by the DNN director and the show's co-anchor Teddy Huang '98. Although in its initial stages, Entertainment Blitz promises to deliver a program filled with music and film reviews, ticket give-aways from the Hopkins Center and Nugget Theatre and WDCR disc jockey profiles and spotlights. "Entertainment Blitz will serve as a counterpoint to DNN which is all talk," Charles said. Hoping to vary the show's format from show to show to keep the programming fresh and inventive, Charles assures listerners that Entertainment Blitz is here to stay. "I think we will definitely have [Entertainment Blitz] for next term," Charles said. There have been so many people this term which have shown interest in the show.

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Rauh shifts from business to politics

By Jacqueline Rose | July 3, 1996

Adjusting his crimson and gold striped tie, the New Hampshire Democratic candidate for the U.S. Senate, John Rauh, a Sunapee businessman and Harvard graduate, explained that his recent transition from business to politics was not a surprising change. In an interview with The Dartmouth, Rauh recalled the death of his father when he was a young boy and said the close relationship he subsequently developed with his uncle, a prominent civil rights lawyer, served to instill in him a deep sense of civic duty. "Uncle Joe Rauh is one of the century's greatest civil rights lawyers," he said.

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Rauh speaks on campaign reform

By Jacqueline Rose | July 3, 1996

Democratic candidate for New Hampshire's seat in the U.S. Senate John Rauh told a packed crowd in Hinman Forum last night that money, not votes sets political agenda in Washington. "Most Americans see two Americas: one writing big political checks and buying influence, and the other America, the majority of Americans, not voting and anxious about their jobs, their health care, their children's future," he said in his speech titled "The Influence of Money in the American Political System." Rauh cited Carl Lindner, the Chief Executive Officer of American Financial Corporation, as epitomizing how money buys influence in Congress. "Though a staunch Republican, Lindner's companies have given $2.1 million to both Democrats and Republicans over the past five years," he said.

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Upper Valley towns prepare for Fourth of July

By Jacqueline Rose | July 3, 1996

From fireworks atop Mount Moosilauke to Woodstock, Vermont's old-fashioned celebration consisting of a crafts fair, spelling bees and music, the Upper Valley offers plenty of ways for students to celebrate the Fourth of July. The Dartmouth Outing Club has planned a hike up Mount Moosilauke to view fireworks on Thursday. Students can leave Hanover at either 11 a.m.

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Skin on parade: 'Striptease' entices and disappoints: Demi Moore bumps and grinds her way to a $12.5 million payday in this summer's latest movie offering

By Debbie Lee | July 3, 1996

I pity Demi Moore. Deceived into believing that she was empowering women by her portrayal of feisty stripper Erin Grant, she was clearly never informed that it was to be marketed as a "bawdy comedy." Maybe it is just a personal prejudice but it seems an inappropriate forum for making a political gesture: you always run the risk that your audience will just laugh and fail to register the vital agenda. But then Striptease is a biting social satire designed to illuminate and ridicule the gross hypocrisies and double standards indulged by men in power, not pure entertainment. The rich plot evolves on the following lines: having lost her job and custody of her child, Erin is forced into stripping to raise money for a court appeal. Amongst the clients at The Eager Beaver, the seedy nightclub where Erin performs, is a plump, nerdy guy in glasses who is infatuated with Erin and a badly disguised Burt Reynolds as a badly disguised lecherous senator, also infatuated with Erin. The nerd attempts to blackmail the senator in order to promote Erin's custody case with disastrous consequences -- dragging Moore's deranged husband, small daughter, lupine-obsessed sister-in-law, club bouncer and fellow strippers into a plot about as subtle as one of Erin's routines. Government is exposed as vice ridden, the husband is exposed as an unfit parent and Erin is simply exposed. Ignoring the ridiculous premise that any judge, even a senile, old one would give custody to Moore's psychotic husband, what is more disturbing is the film's confused attitude towards stripping. With the risk of coming across as obsessed with what must amount to approximately eight minutes of the entire film, the issue demands particular attention. The movie's title and poster both capitalize on the idea and a small but articulate proportion of the audience seemed not to have been put off by the extortionate rate of 81 cents a minute for their evening's entertainment. The film firmly differentiates between prostitutes and strippers (sorry, dancers), a justifiable distinction if Erin's fellow performers were not merely poor variations on the stock "tarts-with-hearts", each sporting a comedy accent and an IQ to match her chest size. Erin herself dislikes stripping, taking care to inform us how she never fails to feel nauseous before every performance, insisting on disrobing to Annie Lennox and becoming perturbed when her daughter happens to see her "dancing." But the sophistication of the film is such that it allows us to see Erin's routines from an audience's perspective, doubtlessly expecting we remain fully aware of her distaste for the task throughout. After all, how could anyone find four separate strips erotic in the knowledge of the performer's extreme reluctance? See the problem?

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Net provides gateway to Hollywood news

By Michael A> Posey | July 1, 1996

For students wishing to keep up-to-date with the ever-changing summer entertainment scene, information about summer movies, theatre performances, and up-and-coming bands can be found right at your fingertips. Searching the Internet can be a fun and exciting way for students (with a little time on their hands) to decide what new movie to see, what new compact disc to buy, and also which new Stephen King novel to read. Sites at such in-the-know entertainment magazines as Premiere Magazine located at http://www.premieremag.com/hfm/index.html and Entertainment Weekly located at http://pathfinder.com/@@ihXYHgUAneumqi*8/ew/contents.html can keep readers and Internet surfers alike abreast on new developments in Hollywood.

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Film is autobiography from the grave

By Barry Kral | June 25, 1996

French actress Jean Seberg did not live past the age of 40; she died by her own hand in 1979. In Director Mark Rappaport's 1995 documentary, "From the Journals of Jean Seberg," the film icon of the 1950s and 1960s narrates her own life story from beyond the grave. In the film, which will be shown in the Loew Theatre Thursday, actress Mary Beth Hurt presents a powerful reflection of how Seberg might look and what she might say today if she had lived. "Seberg" solemnly reflects upon her oft-troubled life and her unfulfilled film career, as black-and-white clips from her past performances flicker across the screen. But "From the Journals of Jean Seberg" examines Seberg's life and her film career in a political context, all the while examining the people and events that surrounded her in the larger context of film history. As "Seberg" says in the documentary, "Film history is a very, very long gossip column.

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Exhibition opens today in Jaffe-Friede Gallery

By Aaron Lisman | June 25, 1996

Sticks, sugar, plexiglass, canvas and neon orange paint are just a few of the materials in the paintings of the three Studio Art interns whose works go on exhibit today at the Jaffe-Friede and Strauss Gallery in the Hopkins Center. The opening reception is today at 4:30 p.m. Artists Enrico Riley '95, Marcin Ramocki '95 and Chuck Ross '95 were this year's interns at the Studio Arts department.

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Black comedy recalls hell of puberty

By Michael A> Posey | June 21, 1996

Behind the blue-rimmed Coca-Cola bottle glasses, behind a million dollar smile full of gleaming white teeth, and behind the stretch pants and gaudy t-shirts is Dawn Weiner, a seventh grader whose life seems to vaguely shadow some Judy Bloom novel from junior high. "Welcome to the Dollhouse," directed by Todd Solondz, is a film which requires viewers to painfully remember their own private junior high hell. An art-house hit and a winner of a Sundance Film Festival award, "Dollhouse" is a black comedy whose humor lies around the edges of the film. The audience laughs when Dawn (Heather Matarazzo) is pushed into a swimming pool by her younger sister, everyone giggles when Dawn is chastised by her classmates and viewers practically jump out of their seats and roll in the aisles laughing when a classmate tells Dawn that she will be raped that afternoon. However, Solondz reminds viewers that Dawn Weiner (whom the kids call Weiner-dog) is not laughing and this is the world in which she must live. "Dollhouse" gives its viewers a glimpse into the life of Dawn Weiner as she loses at love, friendship and life as an 11-year-old in a New Jersey suburb. At first glimpse, it seems that Solondz presents Weiner as the girl we could all hate. She is the one who raises her hand in class to tell the teacher that someone is trying to cheat.

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DFS gives cool solution to intense summer heat

By Michael A> Posey | June 19, 1996

This quarter the Dartmouth Film Society presents a wide array of cineamatic blockbusters and arthouse winners under the aegis of "Cinema Cool." With "Cinema Cool," DFS attempts to provide students with a cinematic definition of what "cool" is while questioning how much we define our "coolness" from the movies we see. The film series, developed by DFS members Michael Ellenberg '97, Sarah Johnston '97 and Christopher Kelly '96, is composed of the usual mix of new-age flicks and veritable classics. This summer's line-up is quite impressive, beginning with the bad-boy classic, "Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid." The movie stars Paul Newman and Robert Redford as two gun-toting bank robbers whose adventurous personalities lead them to one perilous adventure after another while on the lam. Other gems from the DFS line-up include "Broken Arrow," an action-adventure thriller featuring John Travolta and Christian Slater. Directed by John Woo, the film makes use of people's fear of nuclear destruction as it describes the theft of nuclear weapons by mad-man Travolta and his latter actions as he tries to detonate them. "Toy Story," is an animation tour-de-force, featuring the voices of two time Academy-Award winner Tom Hanks and Tim Allen of "Home Improvement" fame. Classics such as "The Maltese Falcon" and "La Dolce Vita" will also be shown this term, introducing students to the "cool" Sam Spade as he searches for the enigmatic maltese falcon and the "coolness" of being in love in Federico Fellini's Italian masterpiece. "Cinema Cool's" line-up will also make use of several double features and even one four film biker marathon featuring: "The Wild One," "Scorpio Rising," "Rumble Fish" and "The Loveless." While "Cinema Cool" plays in Spaulding Auditorium, the Loew theater will feature an intriguing slice of documentaries, including many which have played at such film festivals as Cannes, Telluride and Sundance. Begining the Loew series includes the much-touted documentary "The Celluloid Closet" which chronicles the use and themes of homosexuality in the cinema. Later in the term, "Anne Frank Remembered" is a stunning depiction of Anne Frank which makes use of archival footage, photographs and is punctuated throughout by interviews with survivors. The last film in the series, "Sex, Drugs, and Democracy," will raise questions about such burning issues such as euthasia, legalization of marijuana and abortion.

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Court may force N.H. to provide more school funds

By David Kung | June 19, 1996

In the next weeks, the New Hampshire Superior Court will make a ruling that could bring more money to Hanover schools and could lower property taxes. The court is considering a lawsuit accusing the state of New Hampshire of insufficiently funding schools.

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Dancers will Flamenco at Hop

By James M> Hunnicutt | June 19, 1996

The dancers and musicians of Maria Benitez Teatro Flamenco will bring the clapping hands, stamping heels and staccato rhythms of Spain's classic dance to the Moore Theater of the Hopkins Center of Performing Arts at 8 p.m.

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'Vicious Cycle' opens in Bentley

By Jack Vaitayanonta | May 28, 1996

The student play "Vicious Cycle," alternately titled "How Elvis Really Died," opened last night in the Bentley Theater, unleashing a message about what happens when the limits of friendship are pushed too far. The play, written by Jay Hanlon '97, takes place at an unnamed college in New England and concerns a group of five friends. At the beginning of the performance, Jonathan (Marc Bruni '99) has to attend a formal in about half an hour, but can't seem to find a date. When his friend Alexander (Eyal Podell '97) enters with Jess (Gretchen Lanka '97), he asks Jess to go with him.

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New tap dance group steps into the spotlight

By Josie Huang | May 28, 1996

Steppin' Out, the College's newest dance group, is striding into the foreground on campus. The students involved in the organization have taken up the art form of tap dance to create their own niche among dance groups on campus. Steppin' Out performed for the very first time at the Rhythm Fest on Green Key Weekend to a receptive crowd in Collis Common Ground. Erica Chong '97 and Kristin Johnson '98 founded Steppin' Out earlier this term.

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Four groups deliver in Beethoven concert

By Michael Roberts | May 27, 1996

The Dartmouth Symphony Orchestra, aided by the Chamber Singers, the Glee Club, and the Handel Society delivered stunning performances of Beethoven's 9th Symphony over the weekend. Before the concert began, Director of the Hopkins Center Lewis Crickard presented the Senior Symphonic Award to a surprised Patrick Kwon '96. Kwon, a soloist and two-year concert master, received a warm and lengthy round of applause from an audience which seemed familiar with and appreciative of his talent and commitment to the DSO. With Anthony Princiotti, the conductor of the DSO, taking the podium, the first movement began with a controlled intensity that realized Beethoven's expectations in composing the opening motive. The opening motive created a world of sound that quickly developed from nothingness to a powerful climax. Throughout the entire concert, all the string sections maintained a beautiful, clear, even, and at times almost contemplative sound in the more restrained portions of the work. Princiotti conducted the first movement superbly.

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