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...aren't the kind of thing out-of-towners spend $50 to see on the Great White Way. But Leonard Bernstein's "West Side Story" comes from a more innocent time, when a knife fight could seem a natural subject for a ballet, and a line like "got a rocket in your pocket" didn't automatically provoke knowing winks from the audience. To present that musical now, without turning it into pure kitsch, requires a daunting level of sincerity and enthusiasm. To do it with HRDC's limited resources, and to do it well, would be something like a triumph...

Author: By Adam Kirsch, | Title: There's a Place For The Jets and Sharks | 11/16/1995 | See Source »

What else can be said about this rocket launcher? Not too much, besides the fact that she is only a sophomore and probably has her best years in front...

Author: By Eric F. Brown, | Title: ATHLETE of the WEEK | 10/25/1995 | See Source »

That's when Jose came through yet again with an unbelievable smash for a side out. Forcum quickly followed with a powerful cross-court rocket that left two Lions frozen on the court and left the scoreboard reading 10-7, Harvard. The match ended without Columbia scoring again...

Author: By Ed Perez-giz, | Title: Women's Volleyball Overpowers Columbia, Winning 3-0 | 10/14/1995 | See Source »

...illegibility under the aegis of Japanese prints; Hokusai, one of Whistler's favorite artists, had done a similar scene of fireworks at night behind a tall wooden bridge. The real Battersea Bridge was too stumpy for Whistler, so he made it into a tall Orientalized dream, with the falling rocket fire spangling the dusk like gold flakes on Japanese maki-e enamel. If he could choose where he was born, he could certainly decide what country of the mind a mere bridge...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ART: WHISTLER UNVEILED | 7/24/1995 | See Source »

...whose suburban Houston district the property is located. A second provision, inserted by Mississippi lawmakers, called on nasa to give its 1,200-acre Yellow Creek Facility near Iuka, Mississippi, to that state-along with $10 million to reimburse the state for roads and other improvements to support a rocket-motor facility that had been promised but not built...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HERE COMES THE PORK | 7/17/1995 | See Source »

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