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...soloists, also on platforms, playing two pianos, electric organ, harp, cimbalom, vibraphone and xylophone, with each instrument wired for sound. A half-dozen technicians operate a bank of machines on ground level behind the conductor. The most important is the advanced 4X computer developed at IRCAM that can alter and transform live musical sounds with a speed that allows it to function as effectively as a new instrument itself. The performance-the French premiere-took place in suburban Bobigny in an auditorium resembling a gymnasium, because no hall could be found in Paris to suit the nonproscenium requirements...
...film seems to stand the play on its head is not the result of carelessness or ineptitude. In fact, the picture is well made and well acted. But the turnabout does illustrate how differences between two leading actors' personalities and differences in the demands of two media can alter meanings...
...Moore expressed concern that changes in state legislation, made by Democrats in the 35 state legislatures they control, could force Republicans to alter their rules before 1984 because Republicans incorporate state laws by inference. By coming to the conference, Moore and his fellow party members have had an opportunity to air such concerns to Democratic leaders...
...these were houses built from the 1890s to the 1920s, when chimney-studded industrial plants belched soot over entire neighborhoods. Blue-collar housing consisted of look-alike cottages or row houses. But after World War II, in their own dogged kind of urban renewal, more affluent workers began to alter their monotone dwellings. They painted them in pinks and greens, sheathed them in asbestos shingles, ersatz clapboard or fake stone and brick and punched outsized suburban picture windows into them. This remodeling often led to a complete transformation, to a peculiar, eclectic vernacular that lent variety to the uniformity...
...they do it? "By holding the line," snaps Colonel Dennis Nicholson, a vice president of the Citadel. "We didn't alter a thing." Academically that is true. What most of the five schools did do, however, was to sell prospective students and parents harder on the traditional virtues of the small, all-male college. Among them: a teacher-student ratio of 12 to 1 or better, a conservative curriculum (Hampden-Sydney was the last U.S. college to drop its classical language requirement) and sport programs in which, as W. & L. Admissions Director Bill Hartog puts...