Word: footings
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Regular patrons of The Nutcracker will discover few changes since last year. Company officials are billing this 34th production as an "enhanced performance," with ten foot Nutcracker sentries greeting the audience as they enter the theater, costumed characters mingling with the audience, free memento buttons and more flameproof white confetti for the snow scene in the Enchanted Forest. However, I noticed none of these "enhancing" touches except for those taking place on the stage. The illusion produced by the fake snow in the Enchanted Forest Scene is truly memorable, while equally impressive are the growing Christmas Tree and Sugar Plum...
...Phoenix, S.K. final club was given a live chicken and instructed by their elders to keep close contact with them while going to classes, going to final club events and so forth. Apparently, most carry the chickens around in boxes that seem to be a little over a foot square. They get jostled around between classes, take up seats (in their boxes) amongst the noisy crowds in the dining halls and are penned-up in student rooms at night (on the floor). They apparently have no time to run free except when trying to escape, and to my knowledge, there...
...Last year, Christopher J. Perriello '99, bought basins, drains and pumps, and screwed them together to create a tropical waterfall with a six-foot drop in his dorm room. The fluorescence mixed in with the water gleamed under his black lights. Outside, the cold New England ground was wet with gray rain, but inside, warm tropical water splashed down to a rock beach dotted in shells and starfish. Perriello painted fluorescent mermaids on his walls and installed recessed fish tanks behind his homemade wall of water, creating what he calls a "life-sized aquarium." The bamboo shades and the large...
...After a hunter sighting of a huge fast-moving creature covered in long, red hair, Chinese scientists in Hubei province's Shennongjia Nature Reserve have been trailing Big Foot...
...Alberto leaves his car on the street near the football stadium every morning and hurries to Kirkland on foot. "I can't drive any farther," he said. "There's traffic, no parking and all one-way streets." His shared apartment in Allston gives him parking privileges there. Alberto lives with a Korean and a Cuban college student. "We never see each other because we're all so busy. We all cook for ourselves," he said...