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Most Harvard students use the e-mail program PINE ("Program for Internet News and E-mail"), developed at the University of Washington. This program supports Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions (MIME), a specification for including non-textual information in e-mail...
...Dartboard can't help but picture the scene. On a hot, sticky night in a dark Puerto-Rican club, a new dance emerges: "La Bobbitt." Women gyrate down to their partners' waists, mimicking a pair of scissors with their fingers. They begin to mime a "snip-snip" action as the male recoils in terror. Better than Voguing! Banda Gorda makes a killing...
Junior's central joke. Sure, this is formulaic, describe-it-in-one-sentence movie-making, but nevertheless, there is a certain irresistible curiosity about seeing Arnold Schwarzenegger mime the rituals of expectant motherhood. Go ahead, surrender to it. It won't make you a better person, but it might, very briefly, make you a happier...
...most ambitious dance piece is Last Supper at Uncle Tom's Cabin/The Promised Land, a three-hour multimedia performance work that requires a cast of 50. The first half is an interpretative summary of Harriet Beecher Stowe's 1852 novel about the horrors of slavery, using both narrative and mime. (In the racially mixed company, Simon Legree is often played, ironically, by a black dancer.) The second half explores the nature of religious faith in an age plagued by evils like AIDS. It includes gospel singing, minstrel-show dancing and an improvised, unscripted conversation on whether the disease...
Singers like Levine's spacious pace. Ekkehard Wlaschiha, the excellent Alberich, says that "to sing this music fast, you have to be Superman. Levine fulfills the tempi and he gives you time to phrase -- you can better form a musical arch." Adds Manfred Jung, a properly servile Mime: "It's no secret that the orchestra plays more quietly if the beat is not fast...