Word: glassing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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While he was delivering his lecture last Wednesday, a woman walked on stage and drank a glass of water set aside for him, according to Sally Gaskill, a tutor in Mather House who organizes the lectures. She said Cage ignored the woman, who eventually returned to her seat...
...opera since 1861, more than two decades before the mighty Metropolitan Opera was born. But in fact the whole place nearly died during the 1950s. Its revival in recent years has depended heavily on presentations of theater and dance, along with stagings of operas by contemporary composers like Philip Glass and John Adams, in its annual Next Wave Festival of avant-garde work. But BAM is now convinced (perhaps by the conventionality of many productions at the Met and even at the New York City Opera) that there are further new ways to be tried...
...purchased for $30,000 from a company in Minnesota. The cylindrical chamber, 4 ft. by 9 ft., is the sole possession of Jeff's Preservation Specialties, Inc., the company he operates out of a bare room in an industrial mall in Pinellas Park, Fla. The hulking chamber, with a glass window at one end, resembles those gadgets in science fiction movies that hold spacemen in a state of suspended animation while they hurtle toward distant galaxies light-years from earth. The chamber doesn't work that way, however. What it does is draw the moisture from dead organisms until they...
Perpetual viewing chapels would contain row after row of glass-fronted coffins, either filed away in drawers like precious jewelry, waiting only to pulled out and viewed; or propped up on end side by side, behind one vast glass partition, like a gigantic human butterfly collection. Each corpse would be freeze-dried exactly as the deceased would like to be remembered by its living loved ones...
Freshman Ron Mitchell dominated the glass for the Crimson, pulling down nine rebounds and scoring 16 points from the inside, while sophomore Dana Smith dished out three assists and was perfect from the line (4-for-4) in the game's waning moments...