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...announced it would pony up $35 million to acquire the last private buildings on the block (since 1990, $185 million has been spent buying up all the others), and officials confirmed that the Walt Disney Co. is all but recruited to renovate and stage live performances in the New Amsterdam Theater, the grand Art Nouveau landmark where Ziegfeld had his Follies. "It is the deal that we all dreamed about," says one of the project's masterminds. "When somebody like ((Disney chairman)) Michael Eisner comes in, everybody follows...
...first, European doctors were skeptical. "It seemed like such an ordinary thing to do," says Dr. Adele Engelberts of Amsterdam. "It was very hard to believe that it could be of such influence." But doubts have given way over the past eight years, as more than 25 studies in a dozen countries have demonstrated that fewer babies die while sleeping on their back...
...virus is sweeping the subcontinent: from half a dozen HIV-positive cases in 1986 to a million today -- and an estimated 10 million in the next decade, when the number of people suffering from the full-blown disease is expected to rise to 1 million. Even in worldly-wise Amsterdam, half of the 400 streetwalkers -- most of them drug addicts -- are reportedly HIV-positive...
...process of contagion. Vietnam unleashed the Tet offensive; France shook with the revolutionary "events of May"; radical students filled the streets of Mexico City, Berlin, Tokyo, Beijing, Prague. In the U.S., Chicago swirled into near anarchy as cops battled antiwar demonstrators gathered at the Democratic Convention. And everywhere from Amsterdam to Haight-Ashbury, a generation was getting high, making love, acting...
...Jerusalem, and with Americans in New York City and Austin, Texas, it is a three-act, multimedia, audiovisual collaboration between the pioneering minimalist composer and his wife, the video artist Beryl Korot. By turns fascinating and frustrating, The Cave, which will have other performances this year in Berlin, Amsterdam, London, Brooklyn, Paris and Brussels, stands on its own as a breakthrough piece for Reich and a tantalizing glimpse of what opera might be like in the 21st century...