Word: tower
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...white taxis, you suddenly come upon the cathedral, rising with ancient majesty over the Irish pubs and Heladerias (ice cream shops) around it. Its construction spanned a century (I forget which, though I did take the tour) in the Middle Ages, and beside it stands the Giralda, a Moorish tower that is even older. Its flying buttresses arch against the blue sky like a tangible dream of medieval times, the proverbial Spanish castle, its grey stone begrimed with the sweat of 20th century traffic...
Will Hunting and his girlfriend have a late night snack at the Tasty (perhaps the last time that precious relic was captured on film), and Robin William's psychiatrist works at Bunker Hill Community College. The MIT dome looms prominently, and the Lowell House bell tower makes a brief but pivotal appearance. Having seen the film, we look at these buildings with a new eye, our hangouts and homes having become celebrities of sorts...
...which we have traded our money and our well-being, we streakers assert our fleshy, warm-blooded freedom. From the roaring din and flapping flesh of the midnight hour, we conjure forth the revolutionary spirit, to remind ourselves that it still exists behind the redbrick walls of the ivory tower. Plus, everyone's naked, and that's big bonus...
...seasons. Listening to the selections (and reading the 144-page book of essays, interviews and notes) provides a rare opportunity to experience the changing approaches to music-making and the evolution of recording technology over the past 75 years. (The set, which retails for $185, is available at select Tower Records stores, or it can be ordered directly from the orchestra by phone or via the Internet at www.newyorkphilharmonic.org...
...programming changes needed to adjust computers to the year 2000, unexpected difficulties lie ahead of us. As has been pointed out by anthropologists, the tools we use to shape the world shape us reciprocally. Computer programmers have not taken this into account. The results will be a modern Tower of Babel: an avalanche of improperly understood information producing increasingly serious errors, messed-up minds and even economic catastrophe. DAISY SWADESH Farmington...