Word: staging
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...strain on rockers' ears is slowly easing. Musicians no longer perform before walls of loudspeakers. Today giant speakers are relegated to the sides of the stage or suspended from the proscenium. "Half the concerts are quieter on the stage than anywhere else in the house," notes Flansburgh. Many rockers now sport protective gear during practice sessions and even during performances. Saxophonist Benjamin Bossi of the Ordinaires, a New York City- based band, dons headphones before concerts. Fred Schneider, vocalist for the B-52's, stuffs tissue into his ears. Rock Promoter Bill Graham, who is shepherding the current Amnesty International...
...researchers used this insight to stage the first Core War: a series of mock battles between opposing armies of computer programs. Two players would write a number of self-replicating programs, called "organisms," that would inhabit the memory of a computer. Then, at a given signal, each player's organisms did their best to kill the other player's -- generally by devouring their instructions. The winner was the player whose programs were the most abundant when time was called. At that point, the players erased the killer programs from the computer's memory, and that was that...
...back-to-the-land movement -- a diaspora from the Diaspora, says Eno. After the novelty of clean air wore off, this Jewish Big Chill contingent confronted the harsh realities of isolated rural life, compounded by the gnawing issue of their lapsed Jewishness. "We're just at the stage of finding out what works," says Rick Schwag, 35, who runs the Para-Rabbi Foundation up in Lyndonville. Schwag's organization sends rabbis to Jews requesting instruction in prayer services and rites. "Individuals who have been isolated up here until now are emerging into a community." Adds Wild: "You can throw away...
...With a bottom-line board of directors perched on his shoulder, McEwen never had the freedom that Adler enjoyed. Nor, apparently, will his successor. "Opera has changed from the autocratic days, when people like Kurt Adler did it all themselves," says the affable, Iranian-born Mansouri, 59, a veteran stage director who has run the conservative Canadian Opera Company in Toronto since 1976, a post he is leaving this year. "It is much more of a business...
Neither Kane nor her attorney, David Davis, could be reached for comment yesterday. Odin Anderson, partner of the firm which employs Davis, said however that it was a "delicate stage of this case...