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Jody Watley returns to pop scene

By Marjorie Thurlow | February 28, 1996

Fans of 1980s music remember Jody Watley's solo debut in 1987 as a moment when rhythm and blues, dance and top 40 pop collided in her music and high-fashion image. In fact, the biographical insert included in her latest CD "Jody Watley's Greatest Hits" features a photo shoot reminiscent of Victoria's Secret. But in her album, Watley is much more than a gorgeous dance diva recapturing previous successes.

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P.S. 122 Field Trips: a new school act

By Jack Vaitayanonta | February 27, 1996

P.S. 122 Field Trips, an offbeat variety show heralded as "Ed Sullivan for the avant garde," will perform tonight and Wednesday night in the Moore Theater. The acts will include award-winning artists who utilize the traditional musical and TV variety show format and add their own experimental twist in this powerful and entertaining forum. This program will feature Tiye Giraud, performing her high energy routine of excerpts from "Sugar Tit," Danny Hoch presenting excerpts from "Some People" and "Evolution of a Home Boy," Molissa Fenley choreographing her segment and Reno playing excerpts from her own piece, "Citizen Reno." The P.S.

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Roommates succumb to greed in Celtic film

By Amir Katz | February 22, 1996

Those people who were becoming sick of Celtic films with lovingly photographed shots of the verdant landscapes can revel in the screening of "Shallow Grave," a hip, slick Scottish thriller that is the first film in the Thursday Loew series on new Celtic cinema with a truly urban setting. "Shallow Grave" is the feature-film debut for director Danny Boyle.

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Cliff Vermilya named Hanover citizen of the year

By Charles Davant | February 22, 1996

Hanover Town Manager Cliff Vermilya, recently named Hanover's 30th Citizen of the Year, may not agree that he was born to be a town manager -- but he comes pretty close. "It is something I wanted to do since the days of junior high school," he said. After graduating from Weslyan University, Vermilya planned for a career in town management by studying public administration at the University of Connecticut. Vermilya has directed all of Hanover's administrative divisions, such as the library, police and fire departments, since he moved to the town in 1983. Citizen of the year After 36 years in municipal management -- the last 12 managing Hanover -- Vermilya was named Citizen of the Year by the Hanover Area Chamber of Commerce earlier this month. "I was very surprised by the whole thing," Vermilya said. "My wife and I were invited out to dinner with friends," he said.

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Criminals on the run in double feature

By Jennifer Lawinski | February 21, 1996

Tonight's double feature films at Spaulding Auditorium deals with the tribulations of people who find themselves caught on the wrong side of the law. In director Fritz Lang's "You Only Live Once," an ex-con gone straight named Eddie Taylor (Henry Taylor) is falsely convicted of robbery.

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R and B group delivers 'Total' experience

By Michael A> Posey | February 21, 1996

After several weeks of delayed releases and waiting in nail-biting anticipation, Total, the trio of female voices behind this summer's breakthrough smash, "Can't You See," has hit the hip-hop charts yet again with another soul-stirring single and a much-awaited debut album. The brainchild of Bad Boy Entertainment executive producer Sean "Puffy" Combs, this self-titled album marks Total's first foray into the rhythm and blues album market. "No One Else," their latest release, has been very successful on the Billboard Charts and with R and B fans. Total, the moniker attached to the latest, greatest power hip-hop trio to emerge from the Bad Boy camp, is looking to topple the R and B balladfest cooked up by Whitney Houston and her powerful retinue of divas on the "Waiting to Exhale" soundtrack. Now the market can finally "wait to exhale" as Total will surely make a bid for the top spot with this album release. The women of Total -- Jakima, Keisha Spivey and Pam Long -- vixens with voices, whisk listeners away with their blustery voices. Their harmonious voices are the basis for the album.

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Byrne Hall will host its Mardi Gras dinner today

By Michael A> Posey | February 20, 1996

While Mardi Gras festivities take place thousands of miles away in New Orleans, Byrne Hall hopes to bring the spirit and food of the holiday to Hanover by celebrating "Cajun style." Although Byrne Hall, the Dartmouth Dining Services facility located between the Amos Tuck School of Business Administration and Thayer School of Engineering, caters mainly to graduate students, the cafeteria has been a welcome stop for River cluster undergraduates for years. The dinner, which will begin at 5:30 p.m., will highlight a season, which according to tradition, starts on King's night, or the feast of Epiphany, and runs until Ash Wednesday. The menu for the evening includes Cajun chicken, shrimp and scallop creole, dirty rice, red beans and rice, vegetarian gumbo and King's cake. King's cakes are baked and served throughout the carnival season.

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'Heroes and Saints' production premieres tonight in Moore Theater

By Michael A> Posey | February 20, 1996

A dramatic cast and crew of students will begin a week-long series of performances of Cherrie Moraga's award-winning drama "Heroes and Saints" in the Moore Theatre of the Hopkins Center for the Performing Arts tonight. The production dedicated to the late Cesar Chavez, the founder and long-time supporter of the United Farm Workers of America, focuses on the effects of pesticides in a small Mexican-American farm community. In the fictitious small town in California called McLaughlin, several children are born with crippling birth defects and handicaps which residents in the community attribute to pesticides used on the surrounding crops. The story follows the plight of the farm workers in the community who have become convinced that the pesticides used on the fruit in the area and chemical presence in the local water supply have contributed significantly to a high level of premature cancer deaths and other maladies that plague their children. After repeated attempts to dissuade growers to stop using these pesticides, the farmers resort to extreme means to show their disgust.

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DHMC to study pregnant smokers

By Jodi Priselac | February 15, 1996

Dartmouth Medical School will use a $230,000 grant it received last week to test a novel approach to helping pregnant women quit smoking. Dr. Judith Frank and Dr. Douglas Hoffman will direct the two-year project which will test the levels of the nicotine metabolite, cotinine in pregnant women. "The cotinine level is the measure of your smoking," Hoffman said.

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Newell mystifies film

By Amir Katz | February 15, 1996

Family values, the romance of the Old West and Celtic mysticism add up to "Into the West," a delightful film about two young boys and their magical horse showing tonight in Loew Auditorium. "Into the West," was directed by Mike Newell and written by Jim Sheridan, who has proven skillful in bringing diverse views of Ireland to the screen in such films as "The Field," "My Left Foot" and "In the Name of the Father." This film enters the world of the "travelers," or Celtic gypsies. Gabriel Byrne plays the role of Papa Riley, a man who was once King of the Travelers, but who has since renounced this title and settled down in a housing project in Dublin following the death of his wife. Now all he can do is drink, mourn, and dwell on the past.

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Scorsese scores in film starring DeNiro

By Amir Katz | February 14, 1996

What do you get when you take Robert De Niro, Joe Pesci, Sharon Stone, the Mob and director Martin Scorsese and put them all in a blender? The result is "Casino," an ambitious three-hour chronicle of the decadence of 1970s Las Vegas that will be showing tonight in Spaulding as part of the Film Society's ongoing series on auteurs. "Casino" follows the actions of Sam "Ace" Rothstein, a mob-connected gambler, played by De Niro operating a Las Vegas casino in 1970s Las Vegas. He falls hard for and marries Ginger McKenna, a showgirl played by Sharon Stone, but her gold-digging nature ultimately sends them both on a downward spiral. Joe Pesci portrays Nicky Santaro, a childhood friend of Ace's who comes to Las Vegas a "made man" with his own personal agenda. While on the one hand, "Casino" is a portrayal of the people involved in the gambling business, it is also an attempt in a broader fashion to tell the story of Las Vegas as an entity, focusing on murder, cheating, greed and lust in a way that is unwavering Scorsese. Janet Maslin of The New York Times calls the film's culminating scene "a riotous, terrible meltdown that makes for one of the most scorching episodes Mr. Scorsese has ever filmed." Scorsese comes from the first generation of American directors who were aware of their identities as auteurs.

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Tori Amos crows sensitive tunes

By James M> Hunnicutt | February 14, 1996

Amidst a recent deluge of talented female artists such as Alanis Morissette and Natalie Merchant, Tori Amos stands out as a deeply sensitive and able minstrel whose stirring ballads have sent her to the top of the charts. "Boys for Pele" is Amos' third solo album, following 1994's "Under the Pink" and 1991's "Little Earthquakes." "Boys for Pele" is more daring and provocative than her past works, and it will certainly please not only her loyal fans, but also those unfamiliar with her music. "Boys for Pele," possesses a compelling maturity and uniqueness of style.

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Pinkas, pianist-in-residence, bridges teaching and performance

By Sara Burch | February 13, 1996

Music Professor Sally Pinkas, the Hopkins Center's pianist-in-residence, has been bridging the academic and performance aspects of piano at the College since 1985. Her job has two components -- teaching piano to her 12 students and preparing for a variety of solo, concerto and chamber music performances. The two facets of her job have become symbiotic. "My students get to see me practice what I preach when I perform," Pinkas said. Pinkas fosters strong, personal relationships with each of her students and said she tries to get to know them one-on-one. "My students are exerting intellectual, physical and emotional work," she said.

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