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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...courtyard served as the stage around which folding chairs were intimately grouped. The lights in and around the three-story courtyard were turned off, a few small spotlights illuminating the stage and the stone walls behind, casting eerie shadows into the archways framing the scene. The simple, classic European backdrop was the ideal setting for the 17th- and 18th-century music that was played. Though I had been looking forward to real candlelight, I came to accept the fact that since we were in a museum, having open flames would probably not be the best idea. The spotlights sufficed however...

Author: By Melissa Gniadek, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Happiness Is a Warm Harp, In This Case | 12/4/1998 | See Source »

...bands featured have too much respect for the songs they cover, playing them in much the same style with only minor changes of tempo or instrumentation. This forces one inevitably to compare the originals--and the comparison often comes up short. The Gadjits' take on the Simple Minds classic "Don't You (Forget About Me)," for example, preserves the source's arrangement down to the deep voices and the "hey hey hey hey" that opens the song, but loses its longing tone. If you ignored the liner notes, you might think you were hearing a bootleg recording of '80s cover...

Author: By Daryl Sng, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: IN THEIR EYES | 12/4/1998 | See Source »

...TELEVISION Sr. Match Play Chall., ESPN, 2:00 p.m. W. Soccer NCAA Semis, ESPN2, 2:00 and 4:30 p.m. J.C. Penney Classic, ESPN, 4:00 p.m. Toledo at Marshall, ESPN2, 8:00 p.m. Australian Open, Golf Chan...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: ON DECK | 12/4/1998 | See Source »

When Guys and Dolls opened on Broadway in the '50s the show's cast of gamblers, showgirls and missionaries, Manhattan setting, and swinging tunes buzzed audiences and quickly became one of the first musical theater classics. Played in all kinds of settings since, with casts ranging from the pathetically pre-teen to the deaf and geriatric, Guys and Dolls has proven difficult to ruin, remaining everyone's favorite for its lovable plot and classic '50s show tunes. Harvard, which according to director Colleen McGuinness '99 is predisposed towards "modern, very smart shows" rather than "big show stopper classics...

Author: By Carla A. Blackmar, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Something Other Than Dolled-up Guys | 12/4/1998 | See Source »

...best half-brewed. And that, Microsoft hopes, will underscore its main point: That Sun's Java never worked as promised, which meant Redmond had to write its own version. Of course, Microsoft's version is hardly cross-platform -- it runs only on Windows machines. "This is the classic Microsoft argument," says TIME technology editor Philip Elmer-DeWitt. "If their rivals are having problems it's because they can't cut it, not because of anything Microsoft did." What's unfortunate is that there's a little bit of truth in all of these allegations -- Java is notoriously unstable. But even...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Microsoft Says Java's a Bitter Brew | 12/3/1998 | See Source »

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