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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...doesn't have a word of spoken dialogue. No capital-A Actors parade around the stage hysterically wailing for audience empathy in horrible faux-British accents. No garish sets detract from the graceful bodies moving across the stage. No plot line carries the performance from start to well-concluded finish. But you don't miss these dramatic "necessities"--trust me, you hardly realize they're missing. Without characters and plot, an intricate and fascinating drama is created nevertheless through the intimate connection of footwork, supple bodies, hypnotic music and layers of soft light, leaving the audience entirely spellbound...

Author: By Erin Billinges, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: PERPETUAL MOTIOBN: | 4/16/1999 | See Source »

...doesn't have a word of spoken dialogue. No capitol-A Actors parade around the stage hysterically wailing for audience empathy in horrible faux-British accents. No garish sets detract from the graceful bodies moving across the stage. No plot line carries the performance from start to well-concluded finish. But you don't miss these dramatic "necessities"--trust me, you hardly realize they're missing. Without characters and plot, an intricate and fascinating drama is created nevertheless through the intimate connection of footwork, supple bodies, hypnotic music and layers of soft light, leaving the audience entirely spellbound...

Author: By Erin E. Billings, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Perpetual Motion: An Evening of Time, Money, and | 4/16/1999 | See Source »

...Harvard men's volleyball squad (11-10, 1-6 EIVA) garnered a second-place finish at the Ivy League Championship last weekend at Pennsylvania with a loss to the Tigers--an appropriate ending to a tumultuous season full of ups and downs...

Author: By Cathy Tran, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Senior All-Ivy M. Volleyball Players Take Final Bow | 4/16/1999 | See Source »

...Kosovo campaign has always been about negotiating with missiles rather than fighting to the finish. NATO isn't trying to capture Kosovo from the Serbs in battle -- that would demand a massive commitment of ground troops, risking high casualties and potentially forcing Russia to intervene. Instead, the alliance's bombs are intended to persuade President Milosevic to end his persecution of the Kosovar Albanians and accept NATO's terms for settling the Kosovo dispute...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Mapping the Road to a Kosovo Settlement | 4/15/1999 | See Source »

After a second-place finish to Princeton at the Ivy League Championships two weeks ago, the Crimson were presented with another chance to win a major tournament this weekend...

Author: By William P. Bohlen, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: W. Water Polo Wins One, Loses Three | 4/13/1999 | See Source »

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