Word: wiring
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...five in the morning, a newsroom of rubble, an endless metronome of wire-machine clattering to no one, a sea of crumpled paper and broken typewriters, a resting place for tradition that stares down from the peeling yellowed walls, womb of a thousand dreams and careers and distortions and corrections and insights, a repository for the mediocre and the brilliant and the misfired and the passing-through and the incorrectly pasted up, O Crimson, you are a line on a resume and a way of life...
...over the bunch is a 61-year-old coach who has seen so many gimmicks in his 30-year career that he limits his team to two basic offensive plays. Together they form the Oregon State University Beavers, unbeaten in their first 21 games and, according to one major wire service poll,* the finest college basketball team in the nation...
...house last Friday was in for a surprise. What were those subway-style graffiti doing all over the proscenium arch? What kind of message was it, spelling out the names of Erik Satie, Francis Poulenc and Maurice Ravel, composers of elegance and wit? And what was all the barbed wire doing out there on the naked stage, not to mention the forlorn, bullet-torn French flag...
...Mamelles fares better. The barbed wire is pushed off into a corner, and the sets are Dufy-bright and lively. The story, a gutsy farce that Poulenc took from a drama by Apollinaire, concerns a fed-up woman named Thérèse (Soprano Catherine Malfitano) who decides to quit the second sex by removing her breasts-really two bright balloons. Meanwhile, her husband (Baritone David Holloway) assumes female dress and godlike fecundity; in a day he/she produces 40,049 offspring. Eventually both resume their original genders and celebrate the need to repopulate the world after war. Among Hockney...
...melodrama and documentary. The Holocaust has been the subject of a top-rated TV miniseries, of William Styron's bestseller Sophie's Choice, Lina Wertmuller's film Seven Beauties and Arthur Miller's melodrama Playing for Time, of countless paperbacks tastefully decorated with barbed-wire designs. Funds are currently being solicited for the Simon Wiesenthal Holocaust project in Los Angeles: "This multiscreen, multichannel sound, audiovisual experience of the Holocaust will utilize a 40-ft.-wide and 23-ft.-high screen in the configuration of an arch, three 16-mm film projectors, eighteen 35-mm slide projectors...