Word: moderns
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...city of Salvador da Bahia, which will be celebrating its 450th birthday, promises to have the country's most sizzling street party. For the Bom Jesus dos Navegantes celebration, which honors sailors, thousands of boats with banners aflutter will fill the harbor. Along the ancient cobblestone avenues and more modern thoroughfares, trios eletricos, samba-reggae bands on trucks with eardrum-shattering loudspeakers, will play. Barefoot, bare-chested youths in white cotton trousers will perform the traditional capoeira, a carefully choreographed martial art dating back to slavery that combines somersaults and kickboxing and prohibits contact with one's opponent. To showcase...
When word leaked out last spring that off-Broadway's Manhattan Theatre Club was planning to stage a play in which Jesus and his apostles are portrayed as modern-day gay men, Catholic groups raised a fuss. The theater's management, fearful because of some anonymous death threats, abruptly canceled the production--and then, after First Amendment advocates and a prominent chunk of the theater community protested, reversed itself, hiring a private security firm to supplement New York City cops to guard against violence. Is this any way to get people to come to your play...
Maestro Ozawa's contribution to the orchestra, to Boston, and even to the modern classical music world are unparalleled on today's music scene. In 25 years he has brought a broader symphony repertoire to a larger audience and ceaseless energy and grace to an art form many consider dead. Nothing short of Sunday's enormous concert--an outreach in itself--should have been considered to celebrate the Maestro's extraordinary contributions...
...astonishingly ambitious goal: to present Hamlet straight and to do it well. If the show didn't yield any brilliant new insights into the classic text, it did pull off the laudable achievement of throwing considerable effort, thought and time into making the play accessible and entertaining to its modern audience...
Among the area's other top selling points? Fair Harvard and its modern dormitories...