Word: techno
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...subtlety, drama and emotion may have been left back in the 19th century, but Keshishian's adaptation is a fast-paced, techno-pop extravaganza. It's not deep but it's solid, homespun student theater '80s style...
...some point or another, you'll want to venture beyond the world of Harvard's dimly lit cafes. There's lots of dancing to popular new wave music and techno-pop bands at the newly opened Man Ray (21A Brookline St.). It's connected to a gay night club next door so you'll find a mixture of men dancing with m.n. women with women, and men and women. If you want more emphasis on the band than the dancing, check out The Channel...
Since you're here for the summer, you should venture beyond the world of Harvard's dimly lit cafes. There's lots of dancing to popular new wave music and techno-pop bands at the newly opened Man Ray (21A Brookline St.). It's connected to a gay night club next door so you'll find a mixture of men dancing with men, women with women, and men with women. If you want more emphasis on the band than the dancing, check out The Channel. Planes departing Logan Airport frequently roar overhead and you'll have to trek over...
...Reagan Administration has tried to limit the sale of high-tech equipment that can be put to military use and to crack down on the international "techno-bandits" who purchase or steal for the Soviets what they cannot directly buy. But in an open society that must trade freely with the world, the Reaganauts have about as much chance of preventing high-tech secrets from flowing out of the U.S. as they do of stopping cocaine and marijuana from flooding...
Nutty? Kooky? Surely, but that's what America is all about in Don DeLillo's White Noise. This book is a paradox: unrelentingly frivolous, its moribund satire of our techno-whizbang pop culture is ultimately depressing. White Noise swirls with the sounds of contemporary life--televisions, radios, appliances, sirens. The Babylon inhabited by DeLillo's samaritans is awash in information, sensation, and objects of diversion but everyone's so numb they don't mind, and they adopt a fusty capitalist attitude respecting their decadence. As one character earnestly asserts. "It makes you proud to be an American: we still lead...