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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...which leaves plenty of time for passengers to disembark along the way and explore more closely the river's treasures. The monks of St. Wandrille may offer a tour of their abbey, an anthology of architecture that includes not only medieval ruins but also a 15th century barn moved onto the abbey grounds a few years ago from a nearby village. In another crook of the river is the Abbaye de Jumieges; William the Conqueror made a point of appearing for its consecration...
...evidence, consider the Kronos concert at Manhattan's Alice Tully Hall last month. It was a multimedia program, arranged by the avant-garde Italian stage designer Alessandro Moruzzi, titled "Assembly Required." Dressed in unisex costumes of jet-black shirts and slacks, the four musicians walked onto a stage jumbled with speakers, tape equipment and an assortment of lights and mechanical gears. Before each of the scheduled four works, played without intermission, the Kronos members, in stately, choreographed movements, placed the lights and objects to cast different shadow forms on four screens set up behind their chairs. The program typically offered...
...falls into a vat of toxic slime that eats the skin off his body but doesn't damage his signature deck of cards; when he gaily vandalizes some classic paintings, the film spells the museum's name two different ways; and when he starts tossing $20 million in cash onto the street, the good people of Gotham don't go into a looting frenzy and attack his perch. More important, the picture's first hour poses one big question: How will ace photographer Vicki Vale (Kim Basinger) react when she learns that Bruce is Batman? We never find...
...newly constituted Congress of People's Deputies swung into its second week of parliamentary pyrotechnics, a well-muscled representative from Moscow stepped onto the podium. For days, the Palace of Congresses had echoed with a litany of the sins of past regimes. But here was a man, apparently in full possession of his senses, delivering a passionate condemnation of the once unassailable...
...crowd held back while a group of 40 hungry women and children rushed into the Boerio and grabbed as much milk, flour and sugar as they could carry. As they fled, the ransacking began in earnest. Young, strapping men armed with crowbars knocked spaghetti, oranges and hunks of meat onto the floor as they rushed to scoop up groceries. Others carted off boxes of laundry detergent, frozen foods and toilet paper into their Peugots, Volvos and even waiting taxis. Within 20 minutes they had destroyed the bakery at the rear of the store, smashed out the windows and broken open...