Word: tuned
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...gamers' conference. For 72 hours, some 3,600 hobbyists, exhibitors and camp followers milled and argued, chattered and competed in a giant tournament. To Paul Wood, 35, chief conference organizer and president of the hosting club, Metro Detroit Gamers, the event was as simple as a military tune: "It's nice to get together, drink a few beers, and have a good time combatting each other." In fact, the whole affair was as complex as, well, a war. All weekend, participants were indulging in the seductive impulse to establish their very own rules for the world. Not only...
SEVERAL OTHER interesting performances make this Winterset at least bearable. If you tune in on the actors and let the play slip away, you can watch some good talent hard at work. Robert Owezarek, who movingly played Anton in Failing last fall, largely recreated that role here, this time with a Jewish accent rather than a Hungarian one. As Esdras, the aging, protective father, he rages and coddles, all with a sense of powerlessness and imminent death. David Eddy returns to the Harvard stage as Carr, Milo's chum, and the only regret about his part is that...
...starting to see that we do have a common enemy: inflation. Now we are beginning to see people saying, 'We don't want any more Government ?and I'll have to give up my pet project too.' I don't think there could be a nicer tune in anyone's life than when you have everyone coming to a common understanding...
...Nested (Columbia). The record that asks the question: "Can we mend/ transcend/ the broken dishes of our love?" In pressed wallflower ballads and rhythm and blues slicked up for the cotillion, this garland of lovelorn billets-doux shows no sign of Nyro's lyrical gift. Most of the tunes have to do with being wronged, often romantically, sometimes legally: "Autumn's child is catchin' hell," she sings, "for having been too naive to tell/ property rights from chapel bells." These are the best lines on the record. They are promptly diluted, then wasted, like every other tune...
...this troupe calls "selective inattention." The accomplishment of this organization is, ironically, to give Westerners an authentic taste of the boredom inherent in the Chinese performing-arts tradition. It is an opportunity to develop, in a matter of minutes and as a matter of survival, an ability to tune out large parts of the evening in order to attend with a degree of alertness the moments of great entertainment, like the Peking Opera, when excellence of form triumphs over embarrassing lack of substance...