Word: caking
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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THEATREGOERS AT HARVARD will tell you that when it comes to extremely creative productions, the show that manages to break new ground and yet remain entertaining is rare indeed. Past local innovators like Paul Warner '84 and Bill Rausch '84 have not always been able to have their cake...
About 1200 people gathered at the Park Plaza Hotel Sunday to eat a cake emblazoned with a blue Massachusetts and to shake hands with the Governor and other politicians...
...first glance, a painting like Cake Window (Seven Cakes), 1970-76, might seem to reflect the familiar Warholian message of pop: uniformity within glut. But no. Its target is specificity, the peculiar qualities of fluorescent light (no less difficult to convey than those of sunlight or moonlight), the lush mortuary blue of the shadows, the buzzing glitter of the whites. Light is trapped in the dense paint, and Thiebaud extracts a lavish, slightly mocking sensuality from the pun between the depicted work of the cake icer--smearing those layers of sweet goo, drawing arabesques with the forcing...
...Akrotiri, Cyprus, to glide from the air ^ onto the Achille Lauro. After the initial assault, Navy helicopters would have brought in more Delta teams. The U.S. apparently knew in advance exactly how many terrorists there were on board, and where they were. "It should have been a piece of cake," said an intelligence official. "We anticipated a few casualties on our side, but something the unit could have sustained." By that time, however, the hijackers had left the hostage ship...
...this competition," said Pavarotti at the outset, "it promises you an opportunity. But more important, if you do not win, it doesn't mean you will not have a career." Still, the expansive Italian could not designate many losers. The day the competition ended, Pavarotti celebrated with an early cake for his 50th birthday and announced he had decided on 54 winners. There is more winnowing yet to be done, however; only some will get to sing with him in upcoming Philadelphia productions. "They are all scared to death," he said. "And I tell you they are all winners...