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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...FINAL PIECE is called "Line Up." The dance premiered last spring in New York and is Brown's magnum opus, incorporating many of her earlier works. Included are four pieces originally titled "Structured Pieces I-IV (1973-1976)," "Sticks," "Mistitled (5 Minute Clacker)," "Spanish Dance," and "Figure 8." "Line Up" includes new material arrived at through "memorized improvisation...

Author: By Susan A. Manning, | Title: The Logic of Movement | 2/14/1978 | See Source »

...classics, the Boston Shakespeare Company presents an offbeat Much Ado About Nothing, January 18-21 at 8 and Thursday and Saturdays at 8, until February 26; Henry IV Part I is also offered, Fridays at 8 and Wednesday, February 1. Ibsen's Hedda Gabler runs through February 11, Wednesday and Friday at 8 and Saturday at 5 and 8:30, at the Lyric Stage...

Author: By Jurretta J. Heckscher, | Title: Or, You Could Plead Temporary Insanity | 1/12/1978 | See Source »

Americans rammed Christmas 1977 through a Cuisinart food processor, flashed it on a Comp IV desktop computer game, scented it with Chanel No. 19 and set it to play with Star Wars toys. Those items sold briskly this Christmas, as did women's underpants labeled "Bloomie's" (for Bloomingdale's, the big Manhattan department store) and hundreds of other expensive baubles for the kitchen, bedroom, bath and body. When the buying spree ended on Christmas Eve, U.S. retailers, as exhausted as their customers, could look back on their most successful Christmas ever...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Deck the Halls, Clear the Shelves | 1/9/1978 | See Source »

Sources close to the Amherst College Presidential search committee report that Dean Henry Rosovsky has been offered the college's Presidency. Rosovsky declines comment. Two days later, Reginald Arnold Benedict IV, the had of the search committee, announces that "Henry Rosovsky will not be the next president of Amherst." Sources close to the search committee announce that Rosovsky said he could not abandon his review of undergraduate education "at this time...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Pipe Dreams | 1/3/1978 | See Source »

...Name: Sector, the submarine chase, has a dandy digital readout, for instance, but the courses of the sub and the pursuing warships must be drawn on a chart with a wax crayon-which, as all twelve-year-olds will recognize, is not exactly state-of-the-art technology. Comp IV and Chess Challenger are not quite smart enough to bamboozle a good human player; Gammonmaster II plays its roles well but was rushed onto the market without a doubling cube (though one is in the works); Electronic Battleship, while physically impressive and wonderfully noisy, lacks an AC adapter to help...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Living: Games People Play: 1977 | 12/26/1977 | See Source »

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