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(04/04/02 5:00am)
Minotaurs in the thinking pose, bulls falling from the sky and winged depictions of angels and devils are usually reminscent of Ancient Greece. In a new exhibit at the Duke University Museum of Art, curated by Duke professor of literature Ariel Dorfman, the artist Pedro Sanchez uses these mythological images to bring his Spanish heritage into modernity. The exhibit, Conjuros, is the second in an academic series at the museum.
(03/18/02 5:00am)
Beep! Beep! Beep! 10:45 a.m. Slam! Beep! Beep! Beep! 10:54 a.m. Slam! 11:03am. Why this early? It's Friday! What did I have to do? What was I thinking? Oh right. Go running. 60 degrees. Not bad. Sunny. 11:49 a.m. Yikes--one minute to get to weight training. Breezing through The Chronicle on the bike.
(02/18/02 5:00am)
There are signs pointing to it on the highway. You have to drive through it to get to the Belmont. It is part of the University's skyline. What is it? The Medical Center. Why does this enormous complex go so unnoticed among undergraduates? One culprit could be the dismal reputation of the Pickens Health Center and the student infirmary. When a student is sick, he or she does not have immediate access to the renowned specialists at Med Center; undergraduates are far more likely to be waiting in three-hour lines at Pickens only to get a bottle of Advil and some cough drops. Another could be that undergraduate contact with the Med Center is often as just a shortcut to the dreaded Trent Drive Hall. Aside from the pre-med students who have internships there and The Chronicle's section that covers the medical community, this vast and reputable institution might as well be invisible.
(02/05/02 5:00am)
In two years Phi Kappa Psi and Old House CC have been kicked off campus. Last week Sigma Alpha Epsilon dissolved. Is this a trend?
(01/11/02 5:00am)
"What do I wear?!!!!" is the familiar refrain among college girls across country, in fact, among women in general. The use of this phrase, though, reaches record highs during sorority rush. Freshmen, especially, fall victim to this rhetoric by spending hours over vacation buying and choosing their attire for each round--hitting Banana Republic, J. Crew, Guess and sometimes Gucci so they can make the right appearance during their 20-minute visits with each sorority. They have spent their whole freshman fall figuring out the social scene, asking any older girl whether she is greek, which organization she is in and with which fraternities she mixes. In the library, at section parties and on the bus, she smiles meekly at her would-be sorority sisters, trying to make a good impression and project the right look. The final countdown is finally here.
(12/10/01 5:00am)
When I think back to the first time the concept of money actually hit me, it probably coincided with hearing the word, "No." "No" often referred to my begging to stay up past my eight o'clock bedtime, stopped me from crossing the street and told me I couldn't have dessert. Money did not mean economy, ideology or capitalism. When the dreaded word was applied to things, things I couldn't have, "No" was something new. I remember the little dollar bills my parents would give my friends and me to go to the candy store and get as many lollipops, Reese's and caramels we could for 100 cents; I watched in awe as my dirty crumpled bill turned into different flavors, colors and sizes. This was hardly an understanding of the economy, of capitalism, though.
(11/09/01 5:00am)
Finally, a film worth seeing! After a chain of mediocre action movies, Domestic Disturbance provides a starved audience with a suspenseful plot and a talented cast. Unlike the flops of the summer and early fall, this thriller is not set in a major city and does not rely on new-age technology to make up for a lack of plot. While the story itself is somewhat clichZd and formulaic, Vince Vaughn, John Travolta and young Matthew O'Leary make the movie an exciting watch.
(10/31/01 5:00am)
While haunted houses, ghouls lurking in shadows and witches flying in windows may have been our childhood horrors and the themes of our dreams and Halloween costumes, by Wednesday night here at Duke these nightmares may have evolved into more realistic terrors: anthrax, the Taliban and the job market for seniors.
(10/19/01 4:00am)
Wait for the video: Serendipity would be a much better bet if you had a remote control. The agonizing cheesy love exchanges and the characters' endless search for their soul mates would be easier to bear with a fast forward button.
(10/12/01 4:00am)
We drove through midtown Manhattan, surrounded by more red, white and blue than I've ever seen on any Fourth of July. Street vendors had flag-patterned umbrellas, and billboard ads had turned from giant Coca-Cola cans to enormous American flags. Even the graffiti had literally turned patriotic.
(09/19/01 4:00am)
"Perhaps now America will finally grow up," wrote a French friend at the end of a sympathetic e-mail.
(09/14/01 4:00am)
Imagine two men swinging off ropes that hang from the top of a 300-foot castle turret. Now picture them swordfighting. This pseudo-joust is a typical scene from The Musketeer, Peter Hyams' remake of the oft-cinematized Three Musketeers, by Alexandre Dumas. The film's tag line, "As you've never seen it before," is true only to the extent that the story has never been this painful to watch. While the action sequences, involving wine-barrel jumping and leap frog on horseback, are original and entertaining, the rest of the movie is definitely familiar, if not downright cliched.
(08/31/01 4:00am)
The first 10 minutes of Kevin Smith's newest film, Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back, epitomize why the last of the writer-director-actor's "View Askew" or "New Jersey" films is both so good and yet so frustrating.
(08/31/01 4:00am)
"Hey, you never came to my room last night!" a freshman girl shouted across a crowded East-West bus Monday afternoon.
(06/21/01 4:00am)
"Uh, uh, uh... um... he-... he-...," panted one student hovering over another in a secluded corner of library book stacks. "Yes?" replied the seated student.
(04/06/01 4:00am)
When you think of globalization, do you picture an ant farm? Japanese artist Yukinori Yanagi does. Curated by Trinity seniors Philip Tinari and Randi Reiner, the Duke University Museum of Art's latest exhibit, Made in Asia, explores the intricacies of Asian art. The exhibit features artists from China, Jagan and South Korea among other countries. Oddly, as the exhibit's artists have become more and more worldly by training in America or Europe since the Cold War, they have ironically become more known for their "Asian-ness."
(03/09/01 5:00am)
olly has vested in me the opportunity to ask you to be lesbians for the afternoon," said the introductory speaker of Holly Hughes' one woman show, "Preaching to the Perverted." This past weekend, Hughes, one of four N.E.A. artists who were denied funding in 1998 because of their "indecent" work, drew enough of a crowd at Manbites Dog Theater to require an extra matinee. Surprising, considering Hughes' performance resembled the temper tantrum of a seven-year-old child trying to get attention.
(02/23/01 5:00am)
inally, New York accents and black pants aren't the only representatives of urban life on campus. This Monday, Break! The Urban Funk Spectacular, is coming to the Triangle to show us what New York really has to offer.
(02/09/01 5:00am)
"Interaction," "integration" and "intercommunication" were key words uttered at a reading to celebrate the opening of the John Hope Franklin Center this past Monday. But what does that mean, exactly?
(02/02/01 5:00am)
With Tommy, Duke musical theater group Hoof 'n Horn is trying to take its act to the next level.