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...extremely modern dimensions, a challenge to both the dancers and the audience. The celestial quality of the score makes it difficult for the dancers to perform certain steps in unison. It's often unclear whether the intricately controlled moves are supposed to be together, in canon or in random sequence, for the music lacks any hint of an underlying beat. But the score sets the other-worldly atmosphere of "Breakers" to perfection...
Those who read the .plan of Jonas A. Cooper '97 (e-mail jacooper@fas) will no doubt find themselves doing it forever. Last year, his .plan grew to over 3000 lines. Cooper elaborates, "Originally, my .plan was just like a small diary where I put random stuff about what I was doing, arguments I had with chemistry, and other silly things like that. After that, I was introduced to the art of ASCII, so I started incorporating...such things as Star Trek ships, a dinosaur, a panda, a biohazards sing, and other eclectic items. I received several messages from people...
...play itself is keenly aware of its own mechanisms, as knowingly random strings of speech appear and disappear within monologues like fireflies. This technique, while serving to highlight the play's more comedic elements, also wreaks havoc with any sense of conventional pacing...
...have been hailed even louder and longer than he was. Then again, the greatest diver anyone has ever seen might not have been allowed to compete. Appearing with Barbara Walters on abc's 20/20 last Friday in conjunction with the publication this week of his autobiography, Breaking the Surface (Random House; $23), Louganis revealed that he was hiv-positive when he competed in Seoul and that he now has AIDS. Imagine the uproar then-it was cacophonous enough last week-over the cut Louganis received when he hit his head on the springboard during the preliminaries. Carrying his teddy bear...
With all Algeria caught in the grip of such random terror, peaceable residents are reduced to constant fear for their lives. More than 80% of the 75,000 resident foreigners have fled since extremists singled them out for assassination. France has shut down two consulates, and diplomats everywhere are keeping out of sight. Western governments that might be expected to help negotiate some kind of conciliation between the Algerian government and the radicals confess to total frustration. France, which once ruled Algeria, is worried that the spreading war will seep into neighboring Tunisia and Morocco and provoke a massive flight...