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PERFORMANCE Space Space Performance (formerly Performance Space Six), the group that produced the Sea Monkey's Sideshow multi-media extravaganza last May at the Carpenter Center, is behind this event, which features simultaneous acts of creativity by musicians, fencers, painters and storyteller Brother Blue...
...these events were largely a sideshow to the men's 100 meters. The rivalry between Carl Lewis, 27, the quadruple gold medalist in Los Angeles, and Ben Johnson, 26, began a year ago at the world championships in Rome. There Johnson set a new world record, leaving Lewis in his jet stream. Lewis was no more graceful losing in Rome than he was winning in Los Angeles: Johnson, he said, jumped...
PERHAPS the saddest part of the Tawana Brawley sideshow in New York is that the people who will lose the most are innocent. If the case proceeds as it has to date, future Black victims will not be able to seek justice in racial crimes...
...news last week taking place within taxi-hailing distance of Red Square? One might have thought so from the TV networks' saturation coverage of the Moscow summit. The main event, of course, was the face-to-face meeting between President Reagan and Soviet Leader Gorbachev. The most fascinating sideshow: Raisa and Nancy playing a catty game of one-upmanship. But there was more -- much more. Religion in the Soviet Union was suddenly a hot topic for TV reporters, as were Soviet rock music and the effect of glasnost on the Soviet press. There were tours of the Moscow subway...
...teamed up for one memorable project that brought most of the Harvard artistic community--and its observers--together for a single event. The "Sea Monkeys Sideshow" turned the whole Carpenter Center into a piece of performance art for an evening. Actors, storytellers, musicians, directors, dancers, painters and intrigued onlookers participated in the variety of peripatetic performances. In one room, you could watch a pianist, a trumpeter, a dancer and a muralist all creating and improvising at once--and you could even pick up a paintbrush and join in yourself, on the adjacent wall. Even the ideas that didn't work...