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...Seth," he said, "something's wrong...you're different from the other people I know. Sometimes that worries me." He sighed heavily and got up to make the trek back into his cave, muttering under his breath. "Oh lord, oh lord, my heavy heavy load...

Author: By Seth Mnookin, | Title: There is something wrong | 10/28/1993 | See Source »

...Nixon in China), a horrifying mass murder (John Moran's The Manson Family) and the life and times of a fiery black radical (Anthony Davis' X). Throw in William Bolcom's 1992 McTeague, a setting of Frank Norris' wrenching turn-of-the-century novel, and Steve Reich's The Cave, a challenging examination of the roots of the Arab-Israeli conflict that gets its American premiere this week in Brooklyn, and you have something like a Golden Age of American opera -- boasting a body of work that ranks among the best, most innovative and most popular "serious" music...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Marilyn Monroe At the Opera | 10/18/1993 | See Source »

Walker Allen '96, Tonenson's roommate, found atruly creative approach to find privacy in crampedquarters. She built a "kabouki," or cave, aroundher bed by draping sheets from the bed above...

Author: By Daniel I. Silverberg, | Title: Overcrowded Rooms Test Student Agility | 10/5/1993 | See Source »

Playing in a MUD is like wandering through a literary maze. Scenes are sketched out in a phrase or two -- a woody glade, a drafty cave -- and you move from one to the other by typing commands: go west, climb up, enter castle. In your travels, you run into various objects (a giggling robot, a sleeping sloth) as well as other characters. These can be other players, logging on from a remote computer, or cleverly designed computer programs masquerading as humans. You can communicate with anyone you meet by either speaking (typing a message that appears on the other player...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In The Jungle of MUD | 9/13/1993 | See Source »

...door open and pushed him into the passenger's seat. A second man jumped into the back and put a noose around his throat. Blindfolded, Weinstein was driven to a secluded slope underneath the Henry Hudson Parkway, one of the city's main thoroughfares, and forced into the muddy cave 8 ft. underground where he would spend the next 293 hours. A Marine veteran who still plays singles tennis three times a week, Weinstein was not afraid of the physical challenge. "In my heart, I know I could never have survived without the training and combat experience I received...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Manhattan Hellhole | 8/30/1993 | See Source »

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