Word: modular
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PARIS. A spectacular showcase concert hall has opened at the Cite de la Musique, the shell-shaped rosy white complex of institutions and advanced-research facilities devoted to musical study and performance. The striking auditorium in the Parc de la Villette was built in modular fashion by French architect Christian de Portzamparc so the stage can be easily moved and seating capacity expanded from 800 to 1,200. Sophisticated technology in the oval hall allows the acoustics system to be instantly modified. Through July, an eclectic program of 75 concerts is scheduled, offering medieval, Renaissance, baroque, Romantic, jazz...
...ThinkPad 355 is said to be based upon the 750's modular design, offering board and easy upgradability...
...staging itself has a lot in common with the Broadway staging of Falsettos. Both employ many bright-colored modular building-block pieces on rollers that become tables and chairs and footstools and playthings. Choreographer Paul J. Tines smoothly incorporated props into his lively numbers, especially in songs like "How Marvin Eats His Breakfast" and "Whizzer Going Down...
...mathematicians who gathered in a Cambridge University lecture room last Monday had no idea that they were about to witness history. They had come to hear Andrew Wiles, an English colleague based at Princeton University, give three one-hour lectures on "Modular Forms, Elliptic Curves and Galois Representations," an abstract topic even by the rarefied standards of higher math. By the end of the first hour, though, they knew something was up. Recalls Nigel Boston, a visiting mathematician at Cambridge's Isaac Newton Institute: "We realized where he could be heading. People were giving each other wide-eyed looks...
...newest models range from their limited release Fireworks Speckled collection of luncheon plates and butter dishes to their updated old standby, the ever-popular Modular Mates--standard box-shaped containers for dry goods...