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...hurtling minutes. He can't wait for the moon to rise; with time-lapse photography he Frisbees it into the sky. He tells the history of Western expansion in one minute, with subtitles and sound effects. And he isn't satisfied with man or nature. Flames of neon lick the clouds; an electric fan helps cool the desert...
...peasant woman, flung together and pulled apart by twists of fate. The stage mechanics feature that famous (or infamous) last helicopter taking off from the U.S. embassy in 1975, leaving loyal Vietnamese servants behind, and a panoply of Saigon clubs and Bangkok hooker bars, all nighties and neon. But the themes could not be bigger: geopolitical rescue missions that turn into fiascos, whole peoples' opportunities being thwarted through accidents of birth, the sheer randomness of how riches are distributed on this planet...
Three hundred area runners, clad in neon racing shorts and tee-shirts emblazoned with the VERITAS of race-sponsor Harvard University on the back, gathered at the Fresh Pond Clubhouse for the city's fifth annual Five Mile Road Race. The proceeds from this year's race will help fund the soon-to-be-constructed city-wide senior center...
...called the Engineer (Jonathan Pryce) and a woman of unquenchable faith and optimism called Kim (Lea Salonga) -- the narrative fuses a crude soap-opera plot with subtle satire of relations between capitalism and the Third World. Big in cast (45), emotion and physical sweep, the story ranges from the neon vice bars of Saigon and Bangkok to the red- bannered propaganda parades and squalid re-education camps of the Hanoi regime. It embraces chaste Asian weddings and bawdy Yankee beauty contests, a crooning anthem to a glistening American automobile and an austere hymn to a mammoth statue...
Bean's has moved far from its roots when it just sold boots, tents, canoes and Dickies. The store has undergone several renovations making it larger and more department store-esque with each new coat of paint. But behind the neon and the New York tourists, Bean's still stocks canoes, tents and fishing tackle...