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Mozart's idea of a grown-up fairy tale, The Magic Flute opens with the fair-haired Tamino, a self-proclaimed lost "son of royalty," being overtaken by a ferocious fire-breathing evil serpent represented in this production by some sort of kite. Fainting at such a sight, Tamino is saved by three bewitching and mysterious ladies--messengers of the "star radiant" Queen of the Night, who will continue to play a large role in Tamino's life...
Posing as Benjamin Franklin, Vincent W. Chiang '88, also of Eliot House, decided to go fly a kite. "I liberated it from a tree, and now I'm trying to set it free again," Chiang said...
...mixing a bath of bamboo pulp magically raises a net-like sheet and suddenly has produced a single sheet of fresh white paper. An architect carves, without pattern, small pieces of wood which lock together without adhesive to form the outline of a model of elaborate Chinese architecture. A kite-maker chats animatedly with a Chinese friend about the strange American visitors she has experienced that day; all the while her hands file meticulously at the thin strips of wood which will flow in symmetric perfection as the body of vividly colored kites...
...traditional liberal-conservative split on the Cambridge City Council and School Committee between members of the Cambridge Civic Association (CCA) and independents may be threatened by a third slate this fall. Daniel Crane, a local lawyer and son of the kite Edward Crane, long-time Cambridge mayor, has said that he may run for the 9-member governing body under a moderate pro business...
Says M.I.T. Engineering and Computer Professor Jack Ruina: "I would compare it to going right from the kite stage to the 747." Years further off is the X-ray laser, which would be "bomb pumped," or powered by an internal nuclear explosion. Still more problematic are particle-beam weapons, which would fire streams of atomic particles...