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…BARRY STAVER Limerick conducts interview ence prof, even kicked Limer- ick out of his office. Limerick is not just clown- ing around. "There is a com- mon but inaccurate assump- tion that the fool is trying to make fun of something," says Limerick who, like Lear's fool, is playful yet insightful. "In fact, I am very serious." MICHI AEL M EHLE in Boulder A Pig Issue at Brandeis omething isn't kosher at Brandeis-the menu, to be precise. This fal...…

…C A R E E I This Job Really Weathers Well The forecast for meteorologists is mostly sunny vision viewers may picture Mention meteorology, and tele- Willard Scott wearing bunch of bananas on his bald pate or a local airhead chirp- ing about the rain. But meteorology amounts to a lot more than happy talk. Meteorologists-even a growing number of TV weathercasters-are skilled profes- sionals trained in physics, chemistry and math. Their predicti...…

…Laura Kennedy, 31, who is get- ting her Ph.D. at Texas A&M. Most meteorologists earn a relatively modest income. "You won't become the richest in the world, but it's not bad," says Biedinger of the National Weather Service. Be- ginning government salaries range from $15,500 to $18,300, not including overtime, and within three or four years in- crease to about $28,000. Em- ployees at private companies may well earn more. "If you're a good consu...…

…C A R 4 A Black Leader for Army West Point names an old grad to a top job- and polishes its appeal When Fred Gorden graduated from the U.S. Military Academy at West Point in 1962, he was the only black among 600 cadets. This fall he returned to the Point-as Brig. Gen. Frederick Augus- tus Gorden, the first black officer ever to command the cadet corps. As commandant of cadets, Gorden, 47, holds one of the most significant posts in the Army:...…

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…C L A S S I F I E D S THE BRITISH AMERICAN DRAMA ACADEMY and SARAH LAWRENCE COLLEGE present THE LONDON DRAMA f t r. PROGRAM ti 1 i iit! 1 REGENTS COLLEGE, LONDON i i BADA's programs offer unique opportunities to study classical theatre with Britain's finest actors and directors. Those taking part in 1987 included: Sir John Gielgud - Jeremy Irons . Rosemary Harris Simon Callow " John Schlesinger . Paul Rogers The program includes courses in dr...…

… A R3 RESUMES Getting Carded A search for new blood When you care enough to send the very best, as its saying goes, there is Hallmark Cards, Inc., of Kansas City, which pioneered greeting cards 77 years ago and now has a 40 per- cent share of the market. And there are also Cleveland-based American Greetings, which has an estimated 30 percent of the $3.4 billion business, and Cincinnati-based Gibson Cards, which sells Garfield and Walt Disney-...…

… gag and a punch line in a three-panel cartoon strip."r Artists work on a variety of company products including calendars, posters, T shirts and coffee mugs. Hallmark employs about 600 artists, American Greetings, 300 and Gibson, 50. Artists like Gibson's Carolyn Tagel, 23, don't feel they're selling out by working for card companies. Marty Roelandt, a senior art director for Gibson, agrees. "It's all problem solving in one way or another. It'...…

…7 S 1 4 music ~Ji~i3 jJb iJi± li ever before has so much of the recorded history of jazz been available. In the past, as the popu- larity of jazz surged and bed, record companies would riodically reissue old treas- es and then drop them from eir catalogs. Now it seems as ?very company is blowing the ist off yesterday's master- ices and rushing them into record stores. To a certain ex- tent this phenomenon has been spurred by the compact-di...…

…of Bird" (Warner Bros.) and "Bird / The Savoy Recordings (Master Takes)" (Savoy /Aris ta). "Bird on Verve, Vol. 2: Bird and Diz" (Verve or French Poly- gram) draws from a magnifi- cent pairing of Parker with an- other founder of bop, Dizzy Gillespie. Thelonius Monk. Although he played with many of the boppers and showed a few of the same stylistic intentions, Thelonius Monk soon became a musical style unto himself. A supreme iconoclast, Monk c...…

…PHOTOS FROM THE FR f free form: Art Blakey at a New York City 3ood- a flair for writing. But he has, fro 'Min- for more than 30 years, hired a he, d on long list of promising young I a Sin- players-among the more re- sty 4), he cent, Wynton Marsalis-for his wo 3nges band, the Jazz Messengers. The Mi s. To open, funky sound of his group, do itless particularly on live recordings, ter out is an easy delight. "The Jazz Pa ginal Messengers at the ...…

…k I I n I album difficult In the late .e of several he bonus of gave jazz-rock fusion credi- >ns of tracks bility. "Shhh / Peaceful" from r many, this "In a Silent Way" (CBS) shows vas summed the encroachment of electric A Love Su- instruments, but as one of MCA), an al- several stylistic elements. The t burns with music is still jazz, but with At intensity. a distinct rock flavor. Lis- ;o go beyond ten to "Spanish Key" on >rn, and the "...…

…T H E A R T S 4 THEA TER The Art of Making Sense Spalding Gray becomes more than a talking head Sitting in his loft apartment in New York's artsy Soho district, Spalding Gray conducts a snapshot tour of the horrible house he used to own upstate in Krumville, N.Y. As.he talks, he's flipping through images of decay. "See the exposed log beams," he says, "with the pinholes that turned out to be powder-post beetles." Flip. "Here's the collap...…

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…ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT The Jocular Jugglers The Flying Karamazovs pitch pies, pins and puns For the first time all night the stage is quiet. Quiet, that is, except for the sound of 15 Indian clubs swishing 1 through the air. As the clubs dance faster and faster in the juggling equivalent of a jam sesssion, the Flying Karamazov Brothers improvise tosses while trying to maintain an intricate rhythm. For a few transfixing moments, chaos and order...…

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…Ididn't have a vacation. Ihad an adventure. Remote? T endsot the earth. New muscles. * New attitude. What can you say about rapids named Upper Disaster and Lower Disaster? Companionship. 4 Until this summer, my only experience with the wilderness was demanding to go home early from summer camp. Outward Bound changed all that. I had more than a great time-I had fun. There were 8 in my group. Strangers from all over the country who turned out ...…

…BOOKS - _ So Chic, So Glossy Art history on the run know I've succeeded when my work is talked about as though it were a movie that had just been seen," says the artist Eric Fischl. His strange, voyeuristic paint- ings of suburban family life provoke a lot of conversation-as do surprising works by several other celebrated contemporary art- ists. But how can you keep up with what's hot and what's not now that art talk is as fashionable as cine...…

…M Y T U R 4 Can Engineers BeHumanists? I can't talk math to the people in my core classes; it's like telling a joke to someone who doesn't get it BY MARK W. KELLER and rationality personified, but when it comes to my Engineering students are supposed to be practicality college education I am an idealist and a fool. In high school I wanted to be an electrical engineer and, of course, any sensible student with my aims would have chosen a colle...…

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