Word: concertize
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...years we've brought people here that have no other way of getting to Boston," says Director of the Dance Center Iris M. Fanger. This summer David Gordon and the Pick-Up Company will perform in late July and Remy Charlip will dance a New England Premier Concert the following weekend...
...many quarters, the Canadian pianist Glenn Gould (1932-1982) is remembered mainly for his personal eccentricity. Gould's quirks are legendary: he played in a chair so low his face was only inches from the keyboard, never gave a public concert after the early 1960s (he thought listening to music should be a solitary experience), and wore winter jackets in the heat of summer...
...Concert today; call for information...
...Connection Machine tries to do away with the bottleneck by overwhelming it with processors, 65,536 of them. Acting in concert, they can handle massive amounts of data. Equally important, each processor is assigned its own tiny memory bank. This means that processing and memory, once separated by a narrow channel, are now integrated within a fingernail-size piece of silicon. Moreover, each processor is directly or indirectly connected to every other one through what is in effect a miniature telephone system with 4,096 switching stations and 24,576 trunk lines that can be programmed and reprogrammed without actually...
...eyewitness account of a control-room worker who described hearing two loud explosions and then seeing a fireball rise above the reactor building. Many stories strained to find positive details to hearten readers. Pravda, for example, cited evidence that life continued in the wake of the accident: "The nightingale concert over Pripyat goes on both night and day." Yet, in a demonstration of disdain for Western-style rock, Soviet officials did not publicly announce last week's concert for the evacuated residents of the Chernobyl area. Muscovites learned of the benefit by word of mouth or from a smattering...