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...provided backup servers for its ticketing website, through companies like IBM and EDS (which acquired the Web-hosting business of Loudcloud). "It's like running an electric utility, because you have to accommodate huge spikes in activity," says Marc Andreessen, a Loudcloud founder. When clients such as Foxsports.com and Fandango experience surges in online traffic, Loudcloud instantly provides backup servers...
ROLE PLAYING These games look like movies, except the players direct the action and the dialogue and must solve problems to find their way out of each "scene." The MONKEY ISLAND series (latest: CURSE OF MONKEY ISLAND) is O.K. for all ages; GRIM FANDANGO, with its noir-ish themes, is better for mature teens and adults...
...Grim Fandango: Educational value, 2; Violence...
...April 23, Alvin Ailey performed three works: "For 'Bird'-With Love," "Fandango" and "Revelations." The first piece was an all-new production of Alvin Ailey's original "For Bird" of 1984, a tribute to the jazz legend Charlie Parker. With music by Charlie Parker, Dizzy Gillespie, Count Basie and Jerome Kern, it was a lively and moving reflection of the young jazz legend's life. Born in 1920, Parker, better known as "Bird," rose to great heights in the music world. Along with Dizzy Gillespie, he helped to establish bebop, putting West 52nd Street, now known as Jazz Alley...
...second piece was "Fandango," choreographed by Lar Lubovitch in 1990. Set to Maurice Ravel's Bolero, this piece was a dance for two, performed by Elizabeth Roxas and Leonard Meek. Clad in black midriff shirts and black tights ending in bare feet, they began with their arms and bodies connected and for the duration of the piece they were never separated for more then a few seconds. The choreography moved from simple embraces to lifts and complicated intertwingings of the two bodies that at times was sensual and erotic. The energy between the two dancers, as they rolled, turned...