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Students win Culley competition prizes

By Jack Vaitayanonta | April 18, 1996

At the annual Culley Concerto competition for soloists in three different categories of instruments on Tuesday, Bridget Canniff '96, Katie LaForgia '97 and Emily Zarins '98 garnered first-place awards in the string, woodwind and brass categories, respectively. Canniff performed on the piccolo, LaForgia won in her trumpet performance and Zarins played the violin.

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Mothers and sons get close

By Anthony Foglia | April 17, 1996

The films "Murmur of the Heart" and "Spanking the Monkey," the components of tonight's Film Society double feature, both deal with a son's strong physical bond with his mother. "Murmur of the Heart," directed by Louis Malle, is the story of a boy in the process of becoming a young man.

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Fort Harry's changes name to Fort Lou's

By Alfonso Montero | April 17, 1996

The well-known Fort Harry's restaurant at the Exit 18 Truck Stop in Lebanon was renamed "Fort Lou's" on April 1, when Toby and Pattie Fried, owners of Lou's Restaurant in Hanover, officially took ownership. Fried said right now "Fort Lou's is in a process of change" and "there will be a grand opening sometime in mid-May." He is "turning the place around" so as to "create a friendlier atmosphere and attract more people," Fried said. He also said he would significantly improve the quality of the food. "In the past," he said, "the food they served at Harry's was literally pulled out of a can.

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Julia Griffin named town manager

By David Pichler | April 17, 1996

The Hanover Board of Selectmen has named Julia Griffin to become Hanover's new Town Manager to replace Cliff Vermilya. Vermilya was Hanover's chief executive for nearly 13 years.

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'Divine Inspiration' sparks events

By Josie Huang | April 17, 1996

The Hood Museum of Art today will unleash a series of programs to celebrate the exhibition of "Divine Inspiration: From Benin to Bahia," featuring photographs by Phyllis Galembo which premiered in February and will continue until April 21. Beginning at 6:30 p.m.

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Butler '96 and Munakata '96 form a dynamic duo of jazz

By Elysa Jacobs | April 16, 1996

Every week while students sip drinks and enjoy conversation at the Lone Pine Tavern, two jazz artists provide the smooth, eloquent sounds that make people enjoy their evening. Seniors Taurey Butler and Kazunari Munakata show that as the best-known jazz duo on campus, they are birds of a feather. Butler, an engineering sciences major who hails from East Orange, N.J., began playing music when he was very young. "I started playing the piano when I was seven.

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Monty Python's 'Life of Brian' satirizes religious stories

By Tom Jawetz | April 11, 1996

Okay, so Terry Gilliam did not direct this full-length feature of Monty Python. He does, however, play a prophet, a jailor and several other minor roles. Tonight the Loew Thursday film series will feature Monty Python's "Life of Brian," a film that pokes fun at the greatest messiah in Western history... and pretty much everyone else as well. Brian, played by Graham Chapman, was only a baby boy when he had his first adventure in life.

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WISE prepares for Sexual Assault Awareness month events

By Michelle Gregg | April 10, 1996

The Women's Information Service, a community organization aimed at helping victims of sexual assault and physical abuse, is preparing several events to commemorate and celebrate Sexual Assault Awareness month, in addition to its year-round support. Students from the Tucker Foundation volunteer to work with WISE in a program that visits schools and educates students about sexual harassment, dating violence and healthy relationships. Sexual Assault Awareness month WISE's commemoration will begin with a Take Back The Night march to be held Saturday in White River Junction. Take Back The Night is an annual worldwide event started in England in 1977 to protest night time violence against women, said Kristen Bing, a WISE employee. "We're inviting the entire Upper Valley to come together for one hour, on one evening, in one place to carry candles and share in poetry and music to say no to violence," Judith Moran, AmeriCorps Victim Assistant.

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Bergman's 'Autumn Sonata' film to show

By Marc Mcdonald | April 10, 1996

Continuing the Dartmouth Film Society's spring "Mommie Dearest" film series, "Autumn Sonata" and "September" explore the issues of the mother-daughter relationship. "Autumn Sonata," written and directed by Swedish director Ingmar Bergman, examines the life of a world-famous pianist named Charlotte (Ingrid Bergman, who has no relation to the director) and her direct confrontation with her oldest daughter Eva (Liv Ullman), who feels no connection with her mother. The two most famous Swedish film superstars finally team up together in a role that Bergman plays with remarkable restraint, especially considering she was undergoing radiation treatments for advanced cancer and was scheduled for surgery after the film was completed. Ingrid Bergman told the director, "You know I'm living on borrowed time." But Bergman, when creating the rough draft of his film, wrote that Ingrid Bergman, and nobody else, must play the role of the mother. While Bergman found working with Ingrid Bergman frustrating because she prided herself on her constant rehearsing (which Bergman despised because he felt too much rehearsing took away any spontaneity from the shoot), he believed Ingrid gave all her energy to the role and proved to be a key asset to the film. Although the mother-daughter relationship is an integral part of the film, the other important relationship is Charlotte's loss of her ability to perform as a pianist on a world-class level.

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Autechre invades techno world

By Lee Istrail | April 10, 1996

Pulsating machine hums combine with off-kilter, faltering drum beats and labyrinthian keyboard figures, and may make one think this is the theme song of some clandestine, sinister, underground cult.

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Carmelita Tropicana dramatizes Latino and queer issues

By Lee Istail | April 8, 1996

Carmelita Tropicana's performance last Friday in Collis Common Ground of her short play "Milk of Amnesia" gave insight into the lesbian Latino artist's attempt to regain her past culture. The play is a fictionalized version of Tropicana's real-life visit to her birthplace, Cuba, three years ago.

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Thurs. Loew series focuses on Gilliam

By Tom Jawetz | April 4, 1996

He has a B.A. in political science from Occidental College in Los Angeles, he worked alongside Gloria Steinem in Harvey Kurtzman's humor magazine titled Help and he formerly illustrated for Mad Magazine. Yet Terry Gilliam, the focus of this term's Thursday Loew series, is perhaps best known for his work in the British comedy troupe Monty Python. While a member of Monty Python, Gilliam teamed up with Terry Jones to direct "Monty Python and the Holy Grail" and "Monty Python's Meaning of Life." In between these two films, spurred by a period of depression and soul-searching, Gilliam took his directorial skill out on its own to see what he could do. The first film on which he embarked without the official backing of Monty Python was the 1977 film "Jabberwocky." Incidentally, Gilliam did not continue the practice of inserting his own animation sequences outside his affiliation with Monty Python. "Jabberwocky" is based on Lewis Carroll's poem by the same name in "Through the Looking-Glass" -- "'Twas brillig, and the slithy toves did gyre and gimble in the wabe ..." But Gilliam, widely known throughout the film world for his absurd visions, said he shot the film because he wished to make "filth beautiful." Set in a time when heroes exemplified chivalry, fair maidens were always in need of a helping hand and terrible beasts roamed the land bringing destruction, "Jabberwocky" follows the path of Dennis (Michael Palin), the cooper's son. Carried throughout the film by fate and maintaining his optimistic, polite demeanor, Dennis may bring to mind Forrest Gump.

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