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...their hour-plus set still featured their pioneering fusion of hardcore and metal--a hard, guitar-driven sound that has reached mainstream with such hands as Nirvana and Pearl Jam. The audience responded to the music and Gipe's distinctive growl and wagging tongue with appropriate moshing and stage-diving in a bruising display of fan appreciation. At various times, band members jumped into the crowd and floated atop a sea of large, sweaty, tatooed arms...

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

...contain the underclass--the solution is to give them opportunity. They, like ever more people in America, need hope. Give them chances and they can easily become the Harvard students of tomorrow. Hope does not come from speeches and advertising campaigns. It does not arise from rap and heavy metal music. People are more practical than that...

Author: By P. GREGORY Maravilla, | Title: The End of Civilization As We Know It | 9/21/1992 | See Source »

...said one, the writer Paul Nouge, "must be discreet." Magritte's style, as it evolved, was studiously neutral. His early work, in the 1920s, was mainly exercises in late Cubism -- the "tubist," streamlined, geometrical forms of Fernand Leger and Amedee Ozenfant, shapes that might have been made from metal. The artist who clearly had the biggest impact on Magritte, turning him toward fantasy and irrational images, was Giorgio de Chirico. And even then Magritte couldn't find a way to use De Chirico's unique scenography until he learned about collage from Max Ernst...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: The Poker-Faced Enchanter | 9/21/1992 | See Source »

...outdoor metal structures, designed to provide students with a quick exit from a burning building, are becoming rarer and rarer, officials...

Author: By Ira E. Stoll, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Safety of Fire Escapes Questioned | 9/17/1992 | See Source »

...strings that is three to four times as large as in the show," says Thomas Z. Shepard, an independent producer with more than 60 original cast albums to his credit. Shepard's tour de force is the 7 1/2-min. I Got Rhythm, a furious fugue of corrugated tin, metal plates, pickaxes and flying feet. The song took Shepard a whole day to record -- as long as many entire Broadway albums. Three times he overdubbed the taps of seven dancers, he says, "so it would sound like 21 taps. It gave me a crispness and balance I never could have gotten...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Broadway's Record Year | 9/14/1992 | See Source »

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