Word: scenic
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...resistant wheat, potatoes, sunflowers and sugar beets. There the Northern Crop Sciences Lab, the Biosciences Research Laboratory and the Wheat Quality Laboratory attract millions each year in research grants. Nearby, the Upper Great Plains Transportation Institute and the Mountain-Plains Consortium perform Washington-sanctioned studies on guardrails and scenic byways. N.D.S.U. grew so fast in the 1980s under the pork-barreling patronage of then Senator Quentin Burdick that local wags dubbed the campus "Burdickville.'' Now that the spigot may finally dry up, NDSU must look to outside sources for its research dollars...
...From the border with China in the north to the rice mills of the Mekong Delta in the south, the California-size country is humming with activity. Hong Kong investors have been allowed to open a casino near Haiphong, and Westerners are bidding to develop tourist sites along the scenic coast between Danang and Nha Trang. Hanoi, long a city of bicycles and moldy old colonial edifices, is now rich in motorcycles and office buildings. In Ho Chi Minh City, as Saigon is now called, the April 30 parade marking the end of the war will be set against...
...Waterbaby Bagatelles" (1994), with its fetish for the aesthetic, is Twyla Tharp's gesture towards more conventional dance. It comes complete with dazzling moves, eclectic jazzy tunes, beautiful aqua bathing costumes and clever florscent scenic effects; it is everything a ballet should...
...Merce Cunningham's innovative "Breakers" in Washington last year as part of the Kennedy Center's Ballet Commissioning Project. Opening the show, "Breakers" is a perfect example of a successful artistic whole coming together from many different elements. Cunningham's choreography, Driscoll's score and Mary Jean Kenton's scenic design were developed independently for the piece. Cunningham also choreographs computer-generated movement through experimention on a software package called "Lifeforms...
...plot, because mood and murk are what they're about. But they do, and what Noon comes up with, no surprise, is a Quest. Worked with Orpheus and Eurydice-why not? Scribble tries to retrieve his incestuously beloved kid sister Desdemona from one of those alternate worlds, with scenic but otherwise dim results. Vurt is a good try at great nonsense, and if someone doesn't use it as the basis for Son of Blade Runner, Hollywood isn't paying attention...