Word: hugeness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Mitchell says that while the sexual revolutiondid hit Harvard, it was not a huge force oncampus...
...from a loose scenario devised by the project's creator, Christof (Ed Harris). The Truman Show, as the program is called, is TV's most elaborate prank: Candid Camera on an epochal scale and at a muted pitch. Christof has created the largest man-made structure in history (the huge domed studio that is Seahaven), with a working town, a roiling sea and hundreds of extras, simply to convince one person that his life is real. In this scheme Truman is the human, the one true man. Everything else is...show...
...first time, as part of Africa Fete, a traveling festival of African music and culture that will visit 20 North American cities starting in early June. Joining her will be several other African singing stars, most of them little known in America, including Salif Keita (a huge star in his native Mali), Papa Wemba (from the Democratic Republic of Congo) and newcomer Cheikh Lo (of Senegal). Their sounds can be heard on Africa Fete '98, a companion album just released by Island Records. Taken together, the tour and the album offer American audiences their best chance in years to hear...
...this is some of the most exciting music on the planet," says Blackwell. "It's ancient and it's modern at the same time. There are rhythms and sounds here that you will hear nowhere else in America." For the performers it's a chance to reach a potentially huge new audience. Mursal speaks Somali, Arabic, Danish and only a little English, but when asked if she's excited to play America for the first time, her enthusiasm is easy to understand. "Yes!" she exclaims, breaking into English. "It's been my dream for 30 years...
...India is developing nuclear arms, but does it really want to use them? In both winter and summer low-level and high-level wind patterns suggest that if a bomb were dropped on Pakistan (west) or southern China (east), deadly debris and fallout would be blown back across huge swaths of India. How's that for increased national security...