Word: set
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...concert began with a solo set by Dylan's more melodiously-voiced counterpart, Paul Simon. On the whole, Simon's live performance did not live up to his recording reputation. His style which seems to border on world-music kitsch, was very treble emphasized and percussion heavy, assuming an almost flippant, less weighty framework. Beginning his set with many of his earlier works, especially many he originally recorded with Art Garfunkel, his renditions of "Mrs. Robinson" and "Bridge over Troubled Waters" were unconvincing testimonies of his solo career. But the latter-day Simon finally came out during less-instrumental tinged...
...Jones legal team, whose deposition of the President set off the entire impeachment avalanche, had asked for nearly $500,000. But Judge Wright said the sanctions were "not imposed to punish" but rather to compensate for actual loss. Although Clinton?s lawyers said the penalty should be much lower, on the order of $33,737, they accepted the judge's ruling. "Judge Wright has always made clear that if Clinton wanted to litigate her contempt findings, he risked opening up a whole can of worms," says TIME magazine White House correspondent Jay Branegan. No one at the White House likes...
...last year?s riots that led General Wiranto to gently nudge Suharto out of power and to commit the country to elections. But Suharto?s handpicked heir, President B.J. Habibie, and his Golkar party potentially have sufficient support in the electoral assembly -- due to set-asides for the military and regional representatives -- to block Megawati?s accession. Despite her call for Suharto to be prosecuted for abuses of power, there?s unlikely to be an accord on her taking the presidency unless she gives some guarantee of immunity to the masters of the old order. So, Megawati?s public insistence...
...miss the last train out of Nazi Germany. Otis Cook gives the performance of a lifetime as a lewdly smirking stranger dressed in death-camp gray who meets them at the station. The music is by Hans Krasa and Pavel Haas, two composers who died in Auschwitz; and the set, by Sendak, has the jarring simplicity of a bedtime story gone terribly wrong...
...Chili Peppers closed the concert with a cover version of Jimi Hendrix?s "Fire," hundreds of concertgoers used candles distributed by an anti-gun-violence group to torch a number of vendors? trucks and set fires on and around the stage. Soon the hooligans in the crowd were looting concession stands and portable ATMs, and trashing speakers and other equipment in what some witnesses described as a reaction to the inflated prices the crowd had endured over three days of peaceful partying. In an action unthinkable back in ?69, organizers then called in the police to secure the area...