Word: shells
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Less than a month afterPresident Clinton blocked a $1 billion deal between Conoco Oil and Iran, the Royal Dutch-Shell Group is treading where U.S. companies now cannot. The Anglo-Dutch company acknowledged its negotiations today, but would not confirm reports that it sought the same lucrative contract that the Houston-based Conoco was forced to give up. SaysTIME business writer John Greenwald: "This shows that when you try to hurt Iran by barring American companies from doing business with it, foreign companies are only too willing to rush...
...music on Headtravel is excellent and seems to improve with each new track. "Shell," by Nail, is the best groove on the album, mixing a throbbing beat with the best in atmospheric trance sounds, winds blowing, sudden bursts of melody and rainforest noises. "Tesseract," by Darin Marshall, and "Environment," by A New Consciousness, are also standouts, delicate, lyrical and incessantly danceable. Headtravel is highly recommended. Trance...
PARIS. A spectacular showcase concert hall has opened at the Cite de la Musique, the shell-shaped rosy white complex of institutions and advanced-research facilities devoted to musical study and performance. The striking auditorium in the Parc de la Villette was built in modular fashion by French architect Christian de Portzamparc so the stage can be easily moved and seating capacity expanded from 800 to 1,200. Sophisticated technology in the oval hall allows the acoustics system to be instantly modified. Through July, an eclectic program of 75 concerts is scheduled, offering medieval, Renaissance, baroque, Romantic, jazz...
...mere picture of a bison or a woolly rhino tells us nothing much. Suppose, France's Clottes suggests, that 20,000 years from now, after a global cataclysm in which all books perished and the word vanished from the face of the earth, some excavators dig up the shell of a building. It has pointy ogival arches and a long axial hall at the end of which is a painting of a man nailed to a cross. In the absence of written evidence, what could this effigy mean? No more than the bison or rhino on the rock at Chauvet...
...evil scheme of Dr. Dorksworth, as I call him, has borne fruit in the form of hundreds of unhappy and brain-addled Harvard seniors. You can spot them wandering around the campus like shell shocked World War I soldiers, glancing about furtively and occasionally throwing themselves behind some tree or bush after sighting a thesis advisor on the loose in the Yard. They are pale, out of shape, dazed, confused and, having perfected their procrastination techniques, often know a great deal about the minute details of the O.J. Simpson saga. When two get together they will in fact often...