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...malady afflicting these people is allergic rhinitis, more commonly called hay fever. It has nothing to do with hay and rarely produces a fever, but the Medical Gazette used that term in 1829, and the name stuck. The years since have produced no vaccine, no guaranteed cure and ever rising numbers of sufferers. In the U.S. alone, the sneezing, wheezing, teary-eyed multitudes are now estimated at 22 million...
...BEEN CONSTRUCTED out of some unlikely material -- Gertrude Stein's poetry, ancient Sanskrit texts -- but never have the words been so, well, unwordy as those for Atlas, a new opera by the minimalist composer- singer-dancer MEREDITH MONK that was performed last week in Brooklyn. La la la and Hay yo, Hay yo are just two of the "arias" in this tale of an ! explorer named Alexandra (Monk), who travels to the roof of the world with a handful of intrepid companions and finds both adventure and, in the end, herself. An offbeat but sophisticated hybrid of simple chord changes...
...hero who dreams of escaping to the Southwest, is made to sing "Santa Fe" while ambling through a dusty, too picturesque New York street at night. The staging goes well beyond run-of-the-mill fantasy when it sends him leaping onto a horse and frolicking on a hay wagon...
Jeremy S. Hay '94 said he would welcome a lottery because it would eliminate favoritism in room assignments...
...sounds fairer than the old system," Hay said. "It prevents playing favorites and gives everyone an equal chance for good rooms...