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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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Taboo topics arise in 'Whore' play

By Barry Kral | February 29, 1996

People often wish their sibling relationships had been more harmonious while growing up, even if it was just for their parents' sake. Giovanni and Annabella's parents, however, most likely busied themselves with keeping their incestuous youngsters in different bedrooms.

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Latin music symposium begins

By Barry Kral | February 8, 1996

It has been said Americans know surprisingly little of the various cultures present in their own hemisphere, as past and present-day European music, literature and art dominate Americans' knowledge of foreign lifestyles. Common stereotypes often neglect the vast cultural achievements attained just a few latitude lines to the south.

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Hood Museum may return Native American remains

By Barry Kral | February 1, 1996

This spring the Hood Museum of Art hopes to return to the Abenaki Nation of Missisquoi human remains found near Lake Winnepesauke and donated to the College in 1945. The interred remains of a 10- to 12-year-old Native American child had washed out of a site on the banks of the lake and were sent to the Dartmouth Medical School for forensic examination. They were subsequently donated to the Hood Museum. The area where the remains were discovered falls within the territory widely recognized as that of the Abenaki Nation of Missisquoi (Western Abenaki). The Missisquoi, however, are not a federally recognized Indian tribe, and thus have no legal standing for repatriation claims under the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act of 1990 (NAGPRA). To facilitate the repatriation, the Hood Museum has petitioned the NAGPRA Review Committee for release of the remains, with the support of Donna Roberts, repatriation coordinator for the Abenaki Nation of Missisquoi. The committee has granted permission for the repatriation process to move forward, contingent on publication of the Abenaki Nation of Missisquoi's claim regionally and then in the Federal Register. If no other group or individual claims the remains, they will be repatriated and reinterred in the spring. "As with most Native peoples, we believe our Ancestors should be returned to the Earth Mother as expeditiously as possible in order for them to finally continue on their journeys, which have been so abruptly interrupted," Roberts said.

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