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...Harvard Square is like a mecca for shoppers in many ways. Everyone's going to benefit from this event. It's too bad we can't have it every month," Tragos says...

Author: By Margaret Isa, CONTRIBUTING REPORTER | Title: Stores Will Be Weekend's Real Winners | 10/17/1992 | See Source »

...SUDDEN RISE of Chrislam had been traumatic equally to Rome and Mecca. Christianity was already reeling from John Paul XXV's eloquent but belated plea for contraception and the irrefutable proof in the New Dead Sea Scrolls that the Jesus of the Gospels was a composite of at least three persons. Meanwhile the Muslim world had lost much of its economic power when the Cold Fusion breakthrough, after the fiasco of its premature announcement, had brought the Oil Age to a sudden end. The time had been ripe for a new religion embodying, as even its severest critics admitted...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Hammer Of God | 10/15/1992 | See Source »

...pulled into New York City. He's keeping fast company, part of a jazz quartet that also includes drummer Billy Higgins, trumpeter Don Cherry and Ornette Coleman, who is exploring the outside edge of the stratosphere with his alto sax. They are opening at the Five Spot, the Manhattan mecca for cutting-edge jazz. It is one of those debut dates that are more like a trial by fire: chops will be checked out, irrevocable judgments passed. Slipping the cover off his bass, Haden, who is 22, looks up at the bar and sees Charles Mingus. Percy Heath. Ray Brown...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Experimental Time Trip | 10/12/1992 | See Source »

...Mecca J. Nelson '92 is a non-resident tutor in Cabot House...

Author: By Mecca J. Nelson, | Title: Finding Their Devinants | 9/30/1992 | See Source »

...hard rock grooves and melodic vocals may bring them mass success given the current rage for various former labelmates. Regardless, they gave the audience 15 minutes of pleasure. On the down side of things, Meltdown featured absurd, pretentious vocals and silly heavy-metal lead guitar. And the Vancouver duo Mecca Normal's set was too long. The guitarist did evoke some interesting sounds from his guitar with his rapid, jerky arm movements, but his partner did not add much with her less accomplished guitar playing and vocal style. All in all, a tad self-indulgent...

Author: By Daniel J. Sharfstein, | Title: Have We Seen the Last of Harvard's Big Rock Bands? | 9/24/1992 | See Source »

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