I am enclosing a copy of a recent column in Parade magazine by Marilyn vos Savant, who supposedly is listed in the “Guinness Book of World Records Hall of Fame” for “highest IQ.” A writer asks Marilyn for an answer to the following riddle: If a hen and a half can lay an egg and […]
Tag: Vol. 19 No. 37
Issue of Jun. 28 – Jul. 4, 1990
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A Statue Come to Life
KRITHIKA RAJAGOPALAN and ABIOGENESIS MOVEMENT ENSEMBLE at the Blue Rider Theatre June 21 Krithika Rajagopalan’s art, on exhibit one evening only during the “Nights of the Blue Rider” festival, is unlikely to resemble anything you’ve seen before. It combines music, poetic texts, dramatic story telling, and dance as no single Western form does. Not only […]
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The City File
“It brought you in the showroom, didn’t it? Be it right or wrong, that’s the way everybody does it,” said Ralph Schneider, sales manager at Evanston Nissan, about the Sentra his dealership advertised for $4,495. Ah, but the fine print in the the ad’s footnote explains that that’s the price only “after your $2,000 trade-in […]
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Last Poets
This show should bring some historical perspective to the current rap-music furor; it may also refamiliarize contemporary audiences with the affirming message of liberation that lies at the roots of the form. The Last Poets were, along with Gil Scott-Heron, among the most important chroniclers of the urban revolt of the 60s and early 70s. […]
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Abortion and Contraception
To the editors. The June 1 issue of the Reader contains not just one but two pieces which reiterate cliched and largely unfair stereotypes of prolifers. Rose Pike [“Health: Whatever Happened to Birth Control?”] portrays antiabortion sentiment as the purview of a “religious right” fringe element which cannot abide the thought of any nonprocreative sexual […]
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We Monsters
GREMLINS 2 THE NEW BATCH Directed by Joe Dante Written by Charlie Haas With Zach Galligan, Phoebe Cates, John Glover, Robert Prosky, Robert Picardo, Christopher Lee, Haviland Morris, Keye Luke, and Dick Miller. A cautionary tale set in a Frank Capra universe, Joe Dante’s original Gremlins (1984) gives us a kindhearted, unsuccessful inventor named Peltzer […]
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Art of Grieving
To the editors: I was impressed to read the article by Michael Bonesteel The Art of Dying (June 8) on the cover since I hardly find any articles concerning art. It is about time! I found the article very moving and was glad that Mr. Bonesteel had the courage to tell their story. I understand […]
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Just Say No
To the editors: Re: “Sarcasm for Beginners” [Letters, May 25] I don’t know if your sexophobic reader Bob Hutcheson has noticed it, but those listings of “prostitutes, strippers, and phone sex guys and girls” in the Reader’s section three stay right on the page if you leaf past them. Stephen Gawronski Hammond, Indiana PS: Figler! […]
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Dance Notes: teaching the traditions of nihon buyo
Inside his second-floor studio at Links Hall, Fujima Shunojo is talking to a student. He is sitting Japanese style (on his knees) and reminding the student, a nine-year-old Japanese-American girl in a pink-and-white kimono, to bend her knees. “Even if it hurts you’ve got to bend,” he tells her. Fujima, a practitioner of nihon buyo, […]
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Abortion Without Apology
To the editors: Karen Hoffman Nolan’s article “Gauntlet” on abortion clinic escorting [June 1] points out the widely divergent politics and strategies within the pro-choice movement in this country. The Pro-Choice Alliance [PCA] mistakenly believes that demonstrators should not confront the antiabortionists at clinics. Indeed, according to the article by Nolan, they should remain silent […]
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Sexual Perversity in Chicago
SEXUAL PERVERSITY IN CHICAGO Profiles Performance Ensemble at Red Bones Theater The final image in Profiles Performance Ensemble’s production of David Mamet’s Sexual Perversity in Chicago is stunning in its depiction of the kind of emotional destruction perpetrated in our misogynist culture. Bernie and Danny (Jason Wells and Patrick Hatton), two Loop office workers, sit […]
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Compasso d’Oro
The imperative of U.S. design is to make things cheaply, while in Italy the aim is to make even cheap things well. One is a method, the other an ethic.
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Jim McNeely Trio
At first blush, you might have trouble distinguishing Jim McNeely from some of the other portmanteau pianists of the late 20th century: players whose styles effortlessly contain and reference the last 40 years of jazz piano history. But with a little practice, it’s not hard to pick up on his subtler virtues. His considerable technical […]
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The Sports Section
Comiskey Park is in the midst of a renaissance in this its final season. The White Sox are winning, and the fans are back–both to an extent that no one expected. Two weeks ago, the Oakland Athletics came to town, and when the Sox won the first game of a four-game series they closed to […]