Word: einsteins
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...four years since the ordinance was passed, Ackerly has placed non commercial messages on billboards in Cambridge and other cities. Nickinello says his free speech will be violated it the signs, which display uplifting quotes from such notables as Shakespeare and Einstein, are taken down...
...Freedman and others refine their measurements, cosmologists are scrambling to patch up their theories. To save the idea of the Big Bang, the postulated explosive event that created the universe, they are even talking of reviving the idea of the cosmological constant--a sort of universal antigravity force that Einstein proposed and then discarded as inelegant...
After "Lyric," Redman invited special guest Christian McBride onto the stage and they played two jaw-dropping duets. McBride's talent is simply beyond description. Einstein was not better at physics and Pele was not better at soccer than McBride is at the bass. This 22-year old, has gone from being a prodigy to being a legend in the space of about two years, and he's still improving. What makes McBride so enjoyable to hear is his combination of ludicrous technical skills with a style that is thoroughly grounded in a traditional jazz feel. On "Ornithology," a challenging...
...wife of the bar's proprietor, Rondi Reed declaims, but does not convey, the pathos of a woman who bleakly sees through the egotism of much male solicitude. Hopper makes a sweet Picasso: you can believe he painted harlequins but not minotaurs. Most satisfying is Nelson as Einstein; a diminutive figure, he expresses something of an atom's compacted, ferocious potential energy...
...through Picasso. The play waits for a deus ex machina. And it gets one in Elvis, who materializes as a spectral time traveler come to discuss the shape of the 20th century with the people of Paris. What follows--the culmination of the play--is an enchanting vista, as Einstein and Picasso and Presley stand contemplating the stars. Where are we headed? The heavens are dark; the light is supernal; and the unlikely trio brings a pair of provocative messages. One: the old order is doomed; everything we live by is destined to go smash. Two: things are going...