Word: pit
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BETTE MIDLER The divine gets her own CBS show. Big TV career or pit stop on way to dinner theater...
...front of the San Mateo, Calif., headquarters of Napster, the software company responsible for the file-sharing program that has made the long-prophesied digital-music revolution a reality. "We're doing this because nobody else has the balls to," says Ulrich of a move that would seem to pit the band against some of its constituency...
...stage of the Kennedy Center's Terrace Theater is full of men in black suits and women with Marge Simpson-size hair. To the quiet tick of a deep-voiced drum, they strip to their skivvies. Then the four percussionists in the pit lay down a loud backbeat, and the half-clothed dancers start flying crazily through the air. They look like mall rats at a suburban prom--but their airy lifts and arabesques are straight out of Swan Lake...
...console themselves at AsSeenIn.com a website that's putting costumes, props and sets from the show up for auction online. Among the big-ticket items are Dylan's 1963 Triumph motorcycle, a Betsey Johnson dress worn by Donna, and a jukebox, right, from the characters' perennial hangout, the Peach Pit. The bidding begins May 1. Proceeds go to the Cosmetic Surgery Fund for Aging Teen Stars. Just kidding...
When it's warm, Harvard Square is a magnet for young people in less cosmopolitan suburbs. The Pit People are just the most colorful example--they're the flock of pierced, dyed, leather-clad youths next to the T stop...