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'Ransom' scores as contest of wits between two men

By Sean Levy | November 20, 1996

"Ransom," the latest in an offering of high-action blockbuster films, attempts to provide suspense by taking the viewer on complex twists of the plot. As the name implies, "Ransom" tells the story of the abduction of Sean Mullen (Brawley Nolte), the young son of a wealthy New York airline tycoon, Tom Mullen (Mel Gibson), and his wife Kate (Rene Russo). "Ransom" is the first film venture by both Ron Howard and Gibson since their respective acclaimed and Oscar-nominated directing of "Apollo 13" and "Braveheart." A corrupt detective named Jimmy Shaker (Gary Sinese), the man who organizes the kidnapping, heads a group of criminals who hold Sean captive for an asking price of $2 million. The kidnapper concludes that Mullen will undoubtedly fork over the money, since it seems that such a rich man would not mind parting with a paltry sum in exchange for having his son back. A ransom expert (Delroy Lindo), who is hired to help recover the boy, proudly declares to Mullen that he has been able get a hostage back alive seven out of ten times.

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Wind Symphony honors Nelhybel

By Jack Vaitayanonta | November 19, 1996

The Dartmouth Wind Symphony will celebrate the life and work of composer and arranger Vaclav Nelhybel in a concert titled "A Composer's Life: Vaclav Nelhybel," tonight in Spaulding Auditorium. The Wind Symphony is a campus student ensemble that performs classical and contemporary music on campus and throughout New England. The concert will feature French horn artist Daniel Culpepper as the guest soloist in "Concerto for Horn and Sixteen Instruments," a work written for him by Nelhybel in 1983. Other works in the program will include "Chorale," which Nelhybel based on a medieval Bohemian chant that was born out of fear of the plague. "High Plains March," which will also be featured, is the only work by Nelhybel that can be categorized as a march. Some other pieces in the evening are Nelhybel's arrangements of pieces by Smetana, Monteverdi and other composers who influenced his work. Director of the Wind Symphony Max Culpepper, the father of Daniel Culpepper, will join Gary Corcoran of Plymouth State College, Douglas Nelson of Keene State College and Stanley Hettinger of the University of New Hampshire.

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Nuestras Voces blasts Prop. 209

By Josie Huang | November 18, 1996

The dramatic performance group Nuestras Voces effectively attacked discrimination and recent efforts -- such as Proposition 209 -- to roll back affirmative action programs, during last night's powerful performance of El Teatro de la Esperanza's "Guadalupe." Proposition 209, also known as the California Civil Rights Initiative, is a ballot referendum passed by voters in California on Nov.

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DHMC city services trust fund may soon be empty

By Sarah Gerry | November 13, 1996

The fund established by Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center to help pay for the city services it uses and its impact on the community will be exhausted by 2003 if current spending patterns continue. According to DHMC's Vice President of Regional Planning Steve Marion, the $2-million trust fund had been growing until last year when Lebanon city officials saw the fund as an opportunity to fund public works projects.

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'Secrets and Lies' arouses emotions, stands out among films

By Sean Levy | November 13, 1996

"Secrets & Lies," an emotional orgy of a film, meticulously depicts the depression and dissasfaction of a family living in London and the ulitimate tightening of their bonds to each other. Acclaimed British writer and director Mike Leigh has become well-known for depicting working class stories, tightly charged with emotion yet tempered with humor. "Secrets & Lies," winner of the Cannes Film Festival's top picture and best actress awards, abounds with a serious intensity.

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Hosmer's 'Medusa' piece transcends traditional disciplines

By Kelly Sidley | November 12, 1996

Mythological legend recounts that Medusa's gaze turned her admirers into lifeless stone bodies. Harriet Hosmer's marble neoclassical bust of "Medusa" (1854), a recent acquisition for the Hood Museum of Art, captures in stone her perplexing demeanor before Medusa metamorphoses into a Gorgon. Medusa is both a creator and destroyer, seductive and cruel in mythological history.

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'Mother Courage' production lacks cohesion of original

By Jess McCarter | November 11, 1996

The stage setting looks like footage of the recent civil war in Bosnia. A guard tower is manned by a bearded soldier, and the background is a gray and black curtain, torn and dirty. No raising of the main curtain, no trumpet fanfare, not even a dimming of the house lights opened the Saturday evening performance of this term's mainstage play, "Mother Courage and Her Children." The soldier simply walks on stage and begins one of the typical narrative monologues that Bertolt Brecht uses between scenes. It is minimal theater.

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Musing on war, Brecht's 'Mother Courage' opens tonight

By Josie Huang | November 7, 1996

Tonight's opening performance of this Fall term's mainstage dramatic production, Bertolt Brecht's masterpiece "Mother Courage and Her Children," narrates a powerful and moving story of a woman and her children who face the furies of business and war. The show opens tonight and will have a two-week run of seven performances in the Moore Theater. Drama Professors Mara Sabinson and James Loehlin have taken the helm of the term-long collaboration between faculty and students.

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Hanover Inn boasts more than 200 years serving Dartmouth

By Elysa Jacobs | November 6, 1996

Through its incarnations as a tavern and multiple hotels, the Hanover Inn has been a landmark for members of the Dartmouth community for more than 200 years. The building currently on the corner of Main Street and Wheelock is the fourth building to occupy the site, said Jay Barret, Hanover code officer, who is writing a book about the history of the Hanover Inn. Matt Marshall, manager of the Hanover Inn said, "as far as we know [the Hanover Inn] is the oldest continuously operating business in the state of New Hampshire." The first building was constructed around 1780 by Colonel Ebeneazer Brewster.

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Future Loop's Barrott leads one-man techno group

By Arvid Nelson | November 5, 1996

The ubiquity of pop music played on guitars and drums has become oppressive for many people. Future Loop Foundation is a refreshing break from this entrenched tradition. Computers may well be the most important revolution in music since the invention of the electric guitar. Artists such as Mike Barrott, the sole member of Future Loop Foundation, need only a computer console to compose music.

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'The Crucible' premieres in Spaulding, gets rave reviews

By Sebastian Barreveld | November 4, 1996

Anticipation choked Spaulding Auditorium last Saturday as a sold-out audience waited for the first public screening ever of the film version of Arthur Miller's classic play "The Crucible." The lights dropped and a shaft of light illuminated a lone microphone standing in a corner of the stage.

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New stores move into Hanover area

By Reginald Williams | October 30, 1996

Seeking to fill a niche in the market created by Dartmouth students, several establishments have recently set up shop in the Hanover area. Two new stores, Mind Games and Ramunto's Pizza, have expanded shopping choices in the Upper Valley. Mind Games, a gaming boutique located above the Dartmouth Co-Op on South Main Street, opened at the beginning of Fall term. The store, which specializes in family board games and exotic chess sets, entered the Hanover market hoping to capitalize on the recreational needs of the area's residents and students, store manager Cameron Cudhea said. "We are basically trying to fill a niche that needs to be filled," Cudhea said.

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Valente invokes poetic spirit

By Jack Vaitayanonta | October 24, 1996

"I am the blossom pressed in a book,/ found again after two hundred years ... I am the one whose love/ overcomes you, already with you/ when you think to call my name ..." With these words and those of other writings, the late New Hampshire poet laureate Jane Kenyon has left her mark on the public's mind, and echoes that still reverberate with us long after her death from leukemia in 1995. Kenyon was born in Ann Arbor, Mich.

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African power figure represents ideals

By Kelly Sidley | October 24, 1996

The Hood Museum of Art recently acquired an important addition for its collection of African art with the purchase of a power figure from the former Kongo Empire of Central Africa, now the Republic of Zaire. The nineteenth-century figure is carved from wood and has mixed media attached.

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