Word: instrument
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...challenged on their import records. Chinese dissident Harry Wu made a dramatic appearance at K Mart's annual meeting in Detroit to tell chairman Floyd Hall that the big discounter purchased 73 tons of men's rainwear from China Tiancheng, a company owned by the People's Liberation Army, instrument of the 1989 massacre in Tiananmen Square. Faced with a similar allegation several years ago, K Mart issued a categorical denial. This time the retailer promised to investigate and sever connections to the company if the charges stick...
...better detail, much better lighting, better muscle tone and movement in the animals. When a dinosaur transfers weight from his left side to his right, the whole movement of fat and sinew is smoother, more physiologically correct." Adds Industrial Light & Magic computer-graphics ace Dennis Muren: "We built the instrument for the first movie; on this one we're learning how to play it better. There are more animals [nine species here to five in the first film] and more effects shots [85 to 52]." For the effects team, Spielberg was a canny guide and a great audience. Says Muren...
DIED. NARCISCO YEPES, 69, classical Spanish guitarist who redesigned his beloved instrument, adding four strings, to accommodate his technical prowess; of cancer; in Murcia, Spain. Fans took to Yepes' theme song to Rene Clement's Forbidden Games (1951), but his peers never accepted his 10-stringed fingerboard--despite the enhanced resonance under his deft touch...
...expecting a child in a few months. None of her children has been delivered with medical assistance. Haberstroh is under no illusions that even a harsh penalty will change the Nixons' beliefs. A police detective who interviewed the Nixons reported that the family saw the trial as "an instrument of the devil testing their faith." But Haberstroh is determined to follow through, if only for the sake of the surviving Nixon children. "Diabetes is often an inherited illness," says he. "If one child had it, others may well have...
...Make-Your-Own-Instrument Workshop and Parade. Interactive art has never been so fun: get it, build it, play it. Harvard Yard outside of Dudley House...