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...minimalism burst out of the lofts of Manhattan's SoHo district and marched smartly uptown to the Metropolitan Opera House. Part rock, part raga, part dreamscape and part photo-realism, the minimalist ethos was distilled by composer Philip Glass and theater artist Robert Wilson in a 4 1/2-hour operatic extravaganza called Einstein on the Beach. The sung text consisted solely of numbers and the syllables do, re, mi, etc., while the music was built from a series of simple phrases, insistently repeated. The effect was either riveting or maddening, depending on one's point of view. But few could deny...
...most of the globe, soccer's World Cup competition is the very soul of sport, a month-long extravaganza of adrenaline, athletics and nationalism. But American sports fans hardly notice the quadrennial event. Not only are the Yanks mesmerized by the summertime rapture of baseball, golf and tennis, but most of them find soccer -- which the rest of the world perversely calls football -- a frustrating, often impenetrable game. What kind of sport is it, after all, where players can't use their hands, pass the ball with their feet, butt it with their heads, only rarely score goals and touch...
...screen with unprecedented clarity and brilliance and causes no eyestrain. The new technology, called Imax Solido, was created by Imax Systems, the Toronto-based company that makes movies to be shown on screens the size of six-story buildings. The first Solido film, a largely computer-generated extravaganza called Echoes of the Sun that was co-produced by the Japanese firm Fujitsu, opened last week at the Fujitsu Pavilion at Expo '90, an international fair in Osaka. Showgoers queued up for a chance to park themselves in front of a huge wraparound screen, strap on a pair of battery-powered...
...previous Beanpot encounters, B.U. has won 14 of 22 contests against the Eagles. The Terriers last won the extravaganza in 1987, when they defended their 1986 wreath...
DURING Harvard's four-week winter exam extravaganza, a horrible disease develops on campus...