Word: hugeness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...French word for water (Cirque's founders are French Canadians) but also means to evoke the word of wonder that audiences so often express--Ohhhh!--as gorgeous bodies sail through the air or dive from a 60-ft. pedestal into the pool that occupies much of the huge stage. O could stand for the oasis of sophistication Cirque represents with this production and its sister show, Mystere, at Treasure Island, on the four-mile Strip in the desert...
...economically hurt by it. However, the State Department seems to treat the former Yugoslavia only in terms of the Serb leader, Slobodan Milosevic, to whose impudently hostile policies it reacts by increasing the hostile stance of the United States. The resulting impression of a nation embattled against a huge Western power, with one man courageous enough to oppose that power, benefits that one man immensely--the same man whose policies are so abhorrent...
TMBG definitely had the audience in the palms of their hand. The roadie carrying a glockenspiel garnered a huge response as he shimmied onstage so Dan the drummer could play a note every minute or so in "Shoehorn with Teeth." The marionette head replicas of the two Johns which "sang" "Exquisite Dead Guy" to start off the encore were perfect agents of distraction for the horribly dissonant harmonies (if you will) that are the framework of that song...
...Harvard women's soccer team travels to Princeton tomorrow to take on the Tigers in a huge Ivy League game. At 3-1 in the league, Princeton (9-4 overall) is only one game behind the Crimson, and Harvard needs this win to stay atop the standings...
This would be a huge win for the Tigers, as they would move into uncontested second-place in the league, and maintain their outside shot for the Ivy title...