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...would-be patrons with a set of ground rules: "1) Stand. 2) Dress down. 3) Look up. 4) Touch. 5) No rules." Here's why: the audience stands in a cavernous room for the entire hourlong show, while a dozen or so performers soar overhead. Suspended on wires, they swoop and twirl, climb the walls, bounce in and out of the crowd. There's wind and a rainstorm (you get wet), strobe-light effects and pounding music. By the end, the aggressive performers have coaxed many in the crowd to boogie along, completing the hall's transformation from theater...
...less of a response to a specific threat or conspiracy, but a pre-emptive strike designed to wrong-foot elements who might be planning a world cup terror campaign, says TIME Paris correspondent Bruce Crumley. ?France is sufficiently aware of the terrorist threat to have conducted this swoop to put groups prone to terrorist attacks on the defensive, attacking their infrastructure and disorganizing them,? says Crumley...
...would say that the thing that most annoyspeople in Cambridge is the failure of theUniversities to pay taxes," Duehay says. "Theycould eliminate one source of town-gown strife inone fell swoop with paying full taxes...
...their Indian Ocean base on Diego Garcia. The cruise missiles will come crashing through the windows and walls of Iraq's main military command-and-communications centers. Over the crump and flame of those explosions will sound the roar of low-flying F-117 stealth attack planes as they swoop undetected over air-defense centers--the computer-filled offices that direct missile fire against airborne attackers--drilling their targets with 2,000-lb. laser-guided bombs...
...Lewinsky meets again with Tripp at the Ritz-Carlton, but is ambushed. Janet Reno and a three-judge panel have expanded Starr's investigation. His men swoop down on Lewinsky. Carter files the affidavit. Lewinsky fires Carter...