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'Angels': ecstasy, desperation and AIDS "Millennium Approaches," Part One of Tony Kushner's massive theatrical diptych "Angels in America," is not a small undertaking by anyone's count. But the 1999 Senior Company's carefully modulated production skillfully leads its audience through the wrenching minefield that was New York in the early years of the age of AIDS.
Teen TV rings truer than adult drama Fact is I keep about the same primetime diet as my fourteen-year-old sister - teens, all teens, all the time. I'm a performer in front of the television and teeny bopper TV sets me up for a lot of jokes but that's only the half of its appeal. There is something in these shows - "Dawson's Creek," "Buffy the Vampire Slayer," "Popular," "Roswell" - that makes me feel at once very ironic and very generous.
'Battle Chasers' pure fun, brilliance I'm ending the semester with a bang -- something wicked cool, yo. So brace yourselves and get ready to rumble, 'cause "Battle Chasers" are coming your way!
Orchestra tunes up for fall concert Every year, classical music lovers gladly shell out big bucks to hear the 'greats,' so a concert with two of the Big B's (Beethoven and Brahms) would definitely top the A-list at big orchestras around the world. But there's no need to hop a train to Philly to seek out a performance of this caliber - it's right in your own backyard
Exhibit communicates sense of community This month the List Gallery is showing a particularly social and uniquely grounded exhibit of works by artists associated with Swarthmore College. The Faculty/Staff Art Show runs through Dec. 19. Curator Andrea Packard describes the show as "an exhibit of many materials and many viewpoints within the college community."
Sarton's novels an affirmation of humanity May Sarton was a Cambridge poet and novelist, and most of her novels are set in New England, in houses with faded wallpapers, cretonne curtains, old-fashioned bathrooms, and great stone fireplaces. Her characters, who live in a world where one has cocktails before dinner and all of whom do their own cooking even though they clearly have the money to hire a cook, often find themselves questioning the meaning of their existence in response to the death of a loved one or some other life change such as the marriage of a child. Inconsistent acting, stereotyping doom 'Flawless' I wouldn't call "Flawless" bad, necessarily. It had its glimmers of brilliance, and Phillip Seymour Hoffman tore it up in his melodramatic drag queen role. The plot, however, left something to be desired and the complimentary characters were a waste of screen time. Overall, though, the movie casually acknowledged established stereotypes and dismissed them, squelching them with unconventionall, yet surprisingly natural main characters.
Think you're really a Swattie? Take the test Whatever your class, whatever your grades, whatever your whatever, you've no doubt learned a thing or two from the semester. Now, as you walk around in the real world during winter break, you'll sport your Swarthmore sweatshirt with pride (or grief) and think, by golly, I'm good enough, I'm smart enough, and thank goodness I didn't choose Amherst. With that said, I present to you the following: a short test to see just how attuned you've become to the intracacies of Swarthmore life.
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