Word: spells
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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RANCHO SANTA FE, California: Perfection, as any website designer will tell you, is absolutely essential in HTML coding. Misplace a bracket, spell a command wrong, and the whole page could come crashing down. So when it came time to die, the 39 members of a mysterious San Diego cult went about it in the same precise manner they had conducted Higher Source, their web design business. The suicide plan was meticulously organized. Each member received a hand-written recipe with suicide instructions: take the package of pudding or apple sauce, stir in the drug phenobarbital and eat it, quickly drink...
...keeping that in mind, the majority of the ballets are vivacious successes. "Paquita" is less than captivating, but the dancing is still elegant and refined. The blissfully unconventional "Flights of Fancy" will certainly capture yours. And last, but by no means least, "Carmen" wraps its audiences in a passionate spell that lasts long after Suarez's swan-like death onstage. As ballet, the program is a decided triumph. But leave the "international feast" up to the Newbury Street restaurant Tapas...
English concentrator Barbara Chung '97 finished her thesis with time to spare. She had only spell-checking left to do five days before yesterday's due date...
...next piece, a tangled-looking work dubbed Exhalation, was quick to pick up on its "definite influence of Dr. Seuss-aesthetic." Several good-sized hollow glass letters dangle between the ceiling and a podium, suspended by clear fishing wire and connected by flesh-colored rubber tubing. The letters spell out a hidden message (sorry, you'll have to see it for yourself), and a small fluttering feather balances precariously at the end of the final letter, thanks to the stream of air being pumped through the interconnected parts of the sculpture...
TIME has long had a special relationship with Deng--or, as we used to spell it, Teng. He was twice named Man of the Year--a distinction shared by a select group of world leaders that includes Churchill, Eisenhower and Gorbachev. When Deng decided to visit the U.S. in 1979, he gave TIME his first interview with a Western magazine...