Word: sheared
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...that 40 years ago might have languished for a while in jazz clubs and coffeehouses now move in nanoseconds from the dance clubs and gangsta corners. Through MTV and the trendier magazines, and whatever other express routes the mass media command, they get passed over to mass-marketers who shear off the rough edges and ship them to the malls. So body piercing and ambient technomusic and performance art and couture motorcycle boots and the huggie drug Ecstasy are shipped overnight throughout the merchandise mart that is America...
...minutes before impact, the two pilots of a USAir jet that crashed Saturday in Charlotte, N.C., were warned of dangerous wind shear, federal investigators say. The National Transportation Safety Board unearthed that and other details in a search for why the DC-9 went down with 57 people on board, killing 37. The NTSB, which hasgathered testimony from five surviving flight crew members, planned to release more specifics this evening.parpar
...Shear Madness. Indefinite run. This audience-participant whodunit is about the murderer of a classical pianist who lived over the unisex hair salon where the show is set. Charles playhouse, 74 Warrenton St., Boston. Call 426-5225 for tickets and more information...
...Shear Madness. Indefinite run. This audience-participant whodunit is about the over murder of a classical pianist who lived over the unisex hair salon where the show is St., Charles Playhouse, 74 Warrenton St., Boston. Call 426-5225 for tickets and more information...
...audiences, the payoff varies. When a performer's piece is largely autobiographical, like Shear's or Redgrave's (which ran eight months on Broadway and is touring the country), the theatergoer can get the illusion of making an instant friendship. When the show is a bravura display of physical and vocal transformation from one character to another, like Glaser's deft Family Secrets or Spring's intensely acted if mawkishly overwritten The Mayor of Boys Town, the pleasure is seeing the conjurer's trick. When the writing is ambitiously literary, as in Taylor's eloquent if not galvanically performed pseudo...