Word: earths
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Harvard on an open platform and ringing the "Red Bell of Pestilence and Famine" is, Aara will tell you, an exhilarating experience. The 17 bells range from one to 13 feet in diameter, and when they are rung every beam of the tower trembles. The largest bell, the Mother Earth Bell, weighs 13 tons. It is rung at the beginning and end of each concert and it takes two people standing inside its maw to swing the giant clapper between them. The brute force of that bronze behemoth and its lesser brothers, spilling out into the drowsy...
...result is a visual spectacle unlike anything in the American film tradition. Rumor has it that Steven Spielberg is planning his own "Dogme" film, and, though doubtlessly it will conform to most of his predictable conventions, it does suggest the potential for a more down-to-earth popular cinema...
...there at all. But such ominous artistic omens didn't prevent Producing Director Peter Altman of the Huntington Theatre Company from adapting Nobel-prize winning author Edwin O'Connor's 1956 novel, The Last Hurrah, into a theatrical event. Speckled with scheming politicos, snooty aristocrats and down-to-earth Irish-American folk, O'Connor's novel, a sweeping panorama of '50s Boston political scene, seemed a perfect recipe for dramatic success, right? Wrong...
...fact that the earth has precessed and the direction of the pole points has changed significantly means that the constellations actually are not in the same places on the same days as they were. Or rather the sun is not in the same place on the same day as it was 400 years ago. What that means is: astrologists aren't even talking about where the planets actually are. They're talking about where they are in this conventional picture of astrology, and where the sun and moon and the other planets are. They don't use the actual positions...
...many, Kirshner believes, is a means of relieving themselves of responsibility for their lives. Not that he blames them. "I think the urge to believe things is very strong," he says, "You'd hate to think you're just a lump of atoms on the surface of the earth for one hundredth of the age of the universe, and that that's it. But you know, that...could be true...