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From the rubble of Center Theater rises Moore

By Andrea Meacham | November 8, 1994

For quite a few months, the construction on the former Center Theater, to be unveiled Wednesday as the new Lansing Porter Moore Theater has been somewhat mysterious.

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Say goodbye to Center...and brace yourself for Moore

By Andrea Meacham | November 7, 1994

Most College students visit the Hop at least once a day to gaze hopefully into their H.B.'s, perhaps making sure to rub the nose of the lucky Hop statue before an exam. But over the last few months things have started to look a little different in the front of the Hopkins Center.

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D'Artagnan to close Nov. 13 due to lease

By Nathaniel Leclery | November 3, 1994

The nationally renowned French restaurant D'Artagnan will close Nov. 13 because it was unable to re-negotiate its contract with the company that owns the building in which it operates. Peter Gaylor and Rebecca Cunningham have owned and managed D'Artagnan for the past 13 years and have seen the Lyme, N.H.

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Sculpture explores African-American experiences

By Micheal Posey | November 2, 1994

The renowned African American sculptor Melvin Edwards recently visited the Hood Museum where the first ever retrospective of his work is on view.

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Pinkas plays with drive, drama

By Aditya Dutt | November 1, 1994

In a tribute to modern music, Sally Pinkas performed the world premiere of Kathryn Alexander's progressive composition "A Moment, A Kind of..." Thursday night in Spaulding Auditorium.

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Virgins' cherries pop at ROcky Horror

By Challen Stephens | October 31, 1994

One of Halloween's lesser-known traditions has already come and gone in Hanover. While "The Rocky Horror Picture Show" is viewed weekly in most major cities throughout the U.S.

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Irene Worth portrays Wharton

By Miriam Kolar | October 31, 1994

Hanover welcomed Tony Award-winning actress Irene Worth to Spaulding Auditorium Friday night, as she performed her dynamic "Portrait of Edith Wharton." Worth's recital consisted of selections from the autobiography and works of Wharton, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of such novels as "The Age of Innocence" and "Ethan Frome." Adorned in a shimmering apricot Fortuny gown given to her by the actress Lillian Gish, Worth became Wharton reminiscing about her formative years.

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Pretenders rock Leede Arena

By Susan Zieger | October 31, 1994

The Pretenders commandeered Leede Arena Friday night, reminding the crowd of more than 1,000 what hard-driving, melodic rock 'n' roll is all about.

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Campy sleaze of 'Rocky Horror' to shake up Webster

By Challen Stephens | October 27, 1994

It is time once again to break out the face paint, gather up those extra rolls of toilet paper and prepare to do the Time Warp.

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Ray School sexual harassment case comes to a close

By Kate Armstrong | October 27, 1994

At a public forum held Tuesday at Hanover's elementary school, officials from the U.S. Department of Education's Office of Civil Rights criticized the school district's handling of a sexual harassment case. In July, the OCR cleared a male teacher at the Bernice A.

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Poet Gluck reads

By Susan Zieger | October 25, 1994

Lousie Gluck, a poet highly acclaimed for the spare intensity of her work, enchanted an audience gathered in Rockefeller Center yesterday afternoon with a reading of her poems. Gluck, who teaches creative writing at Williams College in Williamstown, Mass., read from each of her books, culminating with "The Wild Iris" (1992) which won the Pulitzer Prize for poetry.

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Birdsongs of the Mesozoic mounts aural, visual spectacle

By Hong-Taek Kwon | October 24, 1994

Saturday night a red glow suffused Spaulding Auditorium as Birdsongs of the Mesozoic, a Boston-based art-rock group, pounded, squealed, groaned and maraca'd to a rapt audience.

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Tabling the truth

By Susan Zieger | October 24, 1994

"The Table: A Play for Four Voices and Basso Ostinato" by Ida Fink was read Saturday night in the Warner Bentley theater in conjunction with this weekend's Holocaust conference, "Lessons and Legacies III: Memory, Memorialization and Denial." The work dramatizes the sort of inane scrutiny Holocaust deniers would impose on the testimony of survivors.

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Pumpkin picking

By Marisa Howe | October 20, 1994

Time is running out for students who wish to pick their own pumpkins for the approaching Halloween festivities. With the first frost of the season already here, many farms are closing down to the public and harvesting the remaining vegetables themselves for sale at stands and markets. "We just had a killer frost [last Tuesday] night which really hit pumpkins hard.

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Former Giants to hoop it up

By Jeffrey Beyer | October 20, 1994

Proceeds from weekend games will benefit David's House

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Warbling Mesozoic melodies

By Hong-Taek Kwon | October 20, 1994

Birdsongs of the Mesozoic, which has been described as "the world's hardest rocking chamber group," performs Saturday, Oct.

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On the cutting edge of videocrit: Burr '80

By Susan Zieger | October 19, 1994

Everyone, it seems, fancies themselves movie critics. How is it then, that a handful of lucky people watch movies all day and offer up their sanctified opinion to the benighted masses for a salary?

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Kenney '70 wins poetry prize

By Katherine Kaneko | October 19, 1994

The Lannan Foundation awarded one of its 10 prestigious literary awards to the poet Richard Kenney '70 for his works, "The Evolution of the Flightless Bird" (1984), "The Orrery" (1985), and most recently, "The Invention of the Zero" (1993). Given annually, the Lannan Literary Awards were established in 1989 to recognize exceptional writers of fiction, nonfiction, and poetry.

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Drama gives voice to HIV-positive black 'womyn'

By Allison Groff | October 17, 1994

James Chapman's voice resounded in Collis Common Ground last night as a captivated audience hung on his every word.

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Hitchcock Alliance aims to boost care

By Aran Toshav | October 13, 1994

In an effort to improve the quality of health care in the Upper Valley region, Mary Hitchcock Memorial Hospital and other regional, but smaller, health care facilities have formed an affiliation called the Hitchcock Alliance. The Upper Connecticut Valley Hospital in Colebrook, N.H.