Word: theater
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Novgorod Dance -- hellzapoppin', cossack- style, ending with the clarinetist, trombonist, cellist, pianist and conductor all merrily hoofing it around the stage -- bespeaks a composer with both an ear and a sense of humor. Best of all is Schnittke's silvery Three Scenes for Soprano and Chamber Ensemble (1981), a theater piece for percussionists, soprano and conductor that apes a funeral procession, ending with a solemn cortege in which the vibraphone is held aloft like a coffin...
...electronic battlefield" that the military has been developing as part of its evolving command-and- control strategy. When completed, this system will enable commanders to explore war games and battle scenarios, test tactical hypotheses and plan weapons and troop deployment. But the information-processing requirements of a major-theater war would be enormous. Managing a battle is not a case of dealing with one source of data rapidly but, rather, simultaneously processing data about air threats, supply lines, weather and the positioning of hundreds of thousands of soldiers. Whether ALBM will be a device for war games or a battlefield...
Sign "O" the Times is touring the nation and is playing on a very limited number of screens. Unfortunately, after a brief run, it has already been relegated to weekend midnight movie screens in the Boston area. Thankfully, one of those is the Harvard Square Theater...
When the horn blew, the Gray Panthers had a couple of hundred new members. Fearing an onslaught, Harvard Square Theater raised its senior citizen rate...
...Candidate opened in the fall of 1962, to mixed reviews and soft box office. "We had both sides of the political spectrum mad at us," says George Axelrod, who fashioned a terrific screenplay from Richard Condon's scathing comic apocalypse of a novel. "In Paris Communists picketed outside a theater on the Champs Elysees at the same time that Red-baiters were picketing in Orange County. Trouble was, all these people were outside the theater, not inside...