Life News (Arts & Humanities)

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1) Adding "9-11" to the dictionary. 2) X Games: the money behind the Mountain Dew. 3) Star light, star bright, what star do I see tonight?

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1) Past rhetoric by Bush may cost him war on Iraq. 2) School reform conference brings national experts to Philadelphia. 3) Back to school computer buying tips.

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Long before "Sesame Street" there was "Aunt Fran and Her Playmates," a children's program created by Ohio housewife Fran Norris.

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In a new book about William Shakespeare, Dr. W. Nicholas Knight, chair of English at the University of Missouri-Rolla, pieces together evidence from the bard's legal documents and from his family life to strengthen the case that Shakespeare was indeed the author of his plays.

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D.H. Lawrence (Lady Chatterley's Lover) used his writings to work out the issues in his life. The authors of Living at the Edge researched many original, unpublished sources, particularly letters by Frieda von Richthofen (Lawrence's wife), and interviewed people who knew the couple to produce a biography that reveals a difficult man and a vibrant woman.

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The West Virginia University Press will publish an important piece of West Virginia writing that has been forgotten both by West Virginians and the world at large.

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Shanghai, a city of commercialism and consumerism, is a place where any Westerner would feel at home. Yet underneath this facade of coffee houses and fast food restaurants lies the regimented order of Communism.

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1) Lifestyles of the healthy and stress free! 2) No air conditioning? Keep your cool in the heat. 3)Coming up ACES at Temple...and beyond.

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As interest in community gardening continues to flourish in many urban areas, and researchers at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign suspect participants are reaping far more than just fresh, homegrown vegetables.

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Virginia Tech English professor Thomas Gardner has received a Guggenheim Fellowship to complete a book that explores the influence of Emily Dickinson's "fallen poetics" on contemporary works of such poets as Jorie Graham, Charles Wright, and Susan Howe and novelist Marilynne Robinson.

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Betsy Bryan, chair of the Johns Hopkins University Department of Near Eastern Studies, is the guest curator of "The Quest for Immortality: Treasures of Ancient Egypt," the new exhibit at the National Gallery of Art. Bryan is available for interviews.

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Each year, the U.S. government distributes more than 14,500 information products to each of its federal depository libraries. Ridley Kessler, assistant head of the reference department at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill libraries, has made it his life's work to make that information accessible to the citizens of North Carolina.

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Over 70 original Ansel Adams photographs, which had been discovered decades ago in file cabinets and desk drawers across campus, were recently displayed at Dominican University of California to commemorate the 100th birthday of Adams.

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The University of Arizona's Center for Creative Photography is pleased to announce the representation of five major archive photographers from its collections in the new "Masters of Photography" panel of twenty stamps issued by the United States Postal Service.

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Temple University's Esther Boyer College of Music and Department of Dance will host the Society of Dance History Scholars 2002 International Conference, Dance & the City: Urban and Urbane, Thursday, June 20, through Sunday, June 23.

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Underdog movie characters like "Rocky" or Tony Manero in "Saturday Night Fever" were transformed into winners by way of the sequel, a UAB film expert told an audience recently at the Cinematheque Francaise film archives in Paris.

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Across the state and the nation, managers of outdoor dramas that bring these historic events to life believe that this year's surge in patriotism will bring them big audiences this summer -- patriotism, plus the sort of economic downturn that usually means more people take shorter, cheaper vacations closer to home.

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This month, artist Conrad Bakker will fill more than 2,000 mailboxes nationwide with his own rendition of this marketing masterpiece: "Untitled, Mail Order Catalog."

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Look, there by the side of the road -- it's a bike -- no, it's a scooter. No it's the award-winning "Freewill" -- a bicycle-scooter hybrid that transforms itself from one people-powered vehicle to another with a simple 90-degree rotation of the frame.

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The Navajo language featured in "Windtalkers," the new movie about World War II code talkers scheduled to open June 14, is spoken by an increasingly small number of people, says a Swarthmore College lingustics professor.

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Christiane Amanpour, CNN's chief international correspondent who has been covering the Israel-Palestine confict, visited Washington State University May 23 to speak and accept the 2002 Edward R. Murrow Award for Distinguished Achievements in Broadcasting from the Murrow School of Communication.

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Barbara Walters announced that she has donated $1M to Sarah Lawrence College to support a permanent public exhibition gallery in the soon-to-be constructed Monika A. and Charles A. Heimbold, Jr. Visual Arts Center.

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Imagine a lazy summer day -- colorful hot air balloons dotting the sky, American flags flapping in the breeze, the smell of a barbeque tickling your nose -- and put it to music. That's what is in store for families and music lovers from around the globe who flock to the 13th annual Great American Brass Band Festival on the Centre College campus in Danville, Kentucky.

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From documenting long-vanished activities such as local canning clubs to developing oral histories, a new Mississippi State University effort is preserving an important part of the rural past.

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You may think salads are heavenly, but a 17th century scholar and chef believed they could help mankind regain the wisdom and purity of paradise lost. 17th century recipes included in release.

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For much of her career, artist Louise Bourgeois lived and worked in New York City surrounded by some of the most celebrated American artists of the 20th century. But her own induction into that elite club was slow in coming.

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If you can't beat 'em, join 'em. At a university that's internationally known as a hotbed of high tech, both faculty and student artists have learned that one of the best ways to avoid being upstaged by the techies is to embrace them.

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A group of physicians and writers from the New York University School of Medicine has launched the Bellevue Literary Review, a biannual literary journal inspired by the rich history of Bellevue Hospital, the oldest public hospital in the United States.

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Purdue University enlarged its longstanding association with Amelia Earhart by becoming the largest, most comprehensive repository of materials relating to the life, career and mysterious disappearance of the famous aviator.

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Gospel quartets were employed in the early 1900s to promote music publishing companies' songbooks. Christian music in all its forms-southern gospel, traditional and contemporary-has since evolved into a $600 million industry.

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A Gettysburg College professor has written a book about a young woman who, in 1758, was taken by a Shawnee raiding party from her home near what would become Gettysburg.

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A new scholarly work by a Mississippi State University historian and his political science colleague provides a detailed examination of the influences, ideas, actions, and personality of civil rights activist Malcolm X.

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Students and faculty of the Univ. of Arkansas programs in creative writing have produced a wealth of literature this spring, from poetry to short fiction, essays and novels. Here are some places to look for the best in Arkansas writing.

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In the summer of 2002, the Writing Program at Southampton College of Long Island University will host its first major national writers conference, running from July 17 to July 28. Workshop classes will be led by some of the finest writers and teachers of writing in the country.

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A Ford Foundation grant of $195,000 to Cornell University's Africana Studies and Research Center will be used to support outreach activities generated by the success of African artists in the 2001 Venice Biennale and to support African artists in the 2003 Biennale.

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1980 Nobel Peace Laureate Adolfo Perez Esquivel will lead 300 high school students from four Southern states in a BRIDGES PeaceJam at Rhodes College.

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Acclaimed Palestinian poet Mahmoud Darwish will read his poetry for the first time in the U.S. at Swarthmore College in the Lang Performing Arts Center. The event is free but seating is limited, with priority given to Swarthmore students.

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Award-winning poet Quincy Troupe has been nominated as one of three finalists for the state of California's first official poet laureate.

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Arkansas is known for politicians who bend the rules. But the latest novel from University of Arkansas writer Donald Harington features a crew of characters determined not only to break the rules of politics but to break the very rules of fiction.

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Coleridge must not have been paying attention, for in the 19th century, poetry actually promoted the sciences. Poetry by women, that is.

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Before her death in 1998 at age 108, Marjory Stoneman Douglas won acclaim as a Florida journalist, poet and outspoken environmentalist.

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Food sustains our physical bodies, but it also has much to do with our metaphysical selves. A conference at Mississippi State University will explore the links between food and philosophy.

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Billy Collins, the current United States Poet Laureate, will headline this year's Beall Poetry Festival at Baylor University. Collins will be joined by four other acclaimed poets -- Scott Cairns, Jonathan Galassi, Jane Hirshfield and Marge Piercy -- at the four-day event, which is sponsored by Baylor's English department. The festival is free and open to the public.

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Four award-winning authors will be featured at Vanderbilt's spring writers symposium titled "Our Favorite Year: A Celebration of Nashville Writers." John Egerton, Ann Patchett, Alice Randall and Diann Blakely will read excerpts from their books and entertain questions from the audience.

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Poet and short story author Paul Ruffin's first novel, "Pompeii Man," a mystery-thriller set on the Mississippi Gulf Coast and in New Orleans, has been published by Louisiana Literature Press.

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Swarthmore College will host a symposium, "Private Eye / Public "I": Female Crime Writers of the 21st Century," in the Scheuer Room of Kohlberg Hall on Saturday, April 6. Featured authors are Val McDermid, Barbara Neely, and S.J. Rozan. The event will take place from 11:30 a.m. to 6:00 p.m. and is free and open to the public.

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At the invitation of U.S. Poet Laureate Billy Collins, acclaimed University of Arkansas poet Miller Williams will present a reading of his work at the Library of Congress in Washington D.C. Williams promises to read short poems that make a scene.

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The opening night of the fourth annual Roger Ebert's Overlooked Film Festival will feature a newly remastered 70mm print of "Patton," the 1970 Oscar-winner that opens with a famous monologue by George C. Scott as Gen. Patton.

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Thanks to portraits, paintings and drawings, we have a good idea of what the Queen of France, her court and even her more humble countrywomen looked like, but we knew almost nothing about the women who made their clothing, until now.

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Rarely in history has the dissent of the lower classes been more vocal than in Russia in 1917. Yet that outrage has remained silent and inaccessible to successive generations. Now, a new book gives voice to ordinary Russians.