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Going to an A.R.T show always brings with it a certain air of the carnivalesque. Artistic Director Robert Brustein has assembled an astonishingly innovative team of theater technicians, and they're usually over-eager to flex their muscles. Ivanov is certainly not without its own bag of tricks. But Yeremin...

Author: By David Kornhaber, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Russian vs. Russian: Ivanov Revisited | 12/3/1999 | See Source »

Two small, hyper girls and their harried guardian share a mid-cabin seat. Immediately behind them sits a well-dressed 20-something delicately consuming a pastry. The girls chant "We're going to New Jersey, we're going to New Jersey." Their words fall slightly out-of-sync. They turn...

Author: By Lisa J. Powell, | Title: Fifteen Minutes: Diary of a Bus | 11/18/1999 | See Source »

Every Sunday afternoon at one o'clock, a solemn, slightly misshapen din lifts and breaks over the somnolent river houses. Abandoned, commanding, booming through the streets, timbred and shaped by the turn of the buildings, the Lowell House bells ring out in their own, odd beauty. Whether woken or wondering...

Author: By Jérôme L. Martin, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: clöserlook: Ringing the Bells of Death and Famine | 11/5/1999 | See Source »

Perhaps the gerbils being shot out of a cannon or the pack of wolves attacking the high school band distracted him. Because no matter how often Marvin Goldsmith has chuckled at these offbeat TV commercials for Outpost.com an online computer seller, he's still not sure what the website does...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Net Loves Old Media | 11/1/1999 | See Source »

Jonathan is known as a good cook and wants one day to be a chef. But he doesn't see much connection between that dream and his schoolwork. And he often seems distracted by fights with his dad, venting to his friend Kristina Betts during the bus ride that "I...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Wednesday: 6:15 A.M. The Early Bus | 10/25/1999 | See Source »

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