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Whatever the scenario, the Harvard men's swimming team (which trounced its first three opponents and had visions of Eastern and possibly NCAA honors dancing in its heads) got a splash of chlorine in its eyes Tuesday at Brown...
...HASN'T JOHN ADAMS' OPERA THE DEATH OF KLINGHOFFER made the same sort of splash as the composer's earlier Nixon in China? The controversial subject matter -- the murder of an American Jew by Palestinian terrorists -- may be one reason, and Peter Sellars' murky staging at the premiere last year in Brussels another. But the new Nonesuch original-cast CD (which coincides with an updated production in San Francisco) reveals the real explanation: Adams' lush score is fundamentally an oratorio, lacking Nixon's sharp characterization and big set pieces. This, however, is good news for the recording, for Klinghoffer...
Representing the cultural elite, a determined Crimson squad took to the water, and the season, with a splash at West Point...
...been illegal since 1985 but is easily obtainable on the black market. Others frown on drug and alcohol use, stressing that intoxication is extraneous to the rave experience. "The rave scene isn't about fashion or getting high," says DJ Disaster, 26, who is co- producing "Psycho Splash '92," a rave taking place this week in an aquatic theme park outside St. Louis. "It's about forgetting who's going to be President and having a good time...
Catch those Stars and Stripes fluttering through the crowd. Listen for the splash. Blink into the sun and -- whoops! In 22 seconds the race is over. But when the bubbles clear, it is not The Star Spangled Banner playing over the Bernat Picornell Pool but the strains of another anthem. And the man who lays claim to being the new Johnny Weissmuller, the new Mark Spitz, the new Matt Biondi, is a fellow from Volgograd named Popov, winner of the 50-m free and the fastest swimmer of the XXVth Olympiad...