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Last week in a brightly lit room at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in Livermore, Calif., the first production model of the Cray-2 gurgled and glowed, and a nearby printer spewed out a string of characters: s905. B D/U WO/F 06/04 15:24:22 16a. Software Manager Dieter Fuss stared at the message and interpreted it for the assembled Livermore technicians and executives: "It just came alive and said, 'I'm ready...
There is a lot of first-string instrumental talent on Empire Burlesque: Ron Wood of the Rolling Stones present and Mick Taylor of the Stones past; Drummer Jim Keltner; and most especially the drum and bass team of Sly Dunbar and Robbie Shakespeare, who give the record a funky, rumpled-up, island-inflected, rhythmic drive. With all this professional sheen, Empire Burlesque is still startling, an unexpected flash-forward. Like a sudden cut in a film, this record is disorienting at first -- Where did this come from? What's going on? -- but so well judged and timed that after...
DIED. Harold Hecht, 77, independent film producer who followed a string of Technicolor swashbucklers in the mid-1950s with the low-budget, Oscar-winning Marty; of cancer; in Beverly Hills. Hecht was a struggling agent when he teamed up with Actor Burt Lancaster; during the next 15 years, the pair made such notable films as Separate Tables and Birdman of Alcatraz...
...String Quartets...
...mistake there. Sellars has let his theatrical imagination run wild. The stage of the Eisenhower Theater, stripped to the pipes and rafters, is a cavernous expanse of catwalks, stairways, trapdoors and art deco modules that glide across the stage unloading and gobbling up performers. A string quartet provides onstage musical accompaniment, while the actors (their faces often decorated with red or green war paint) are showered with a hodgepodge of spotlight effects meant to simulate movie close-ups. Most of the 3 1/2 hours is played at fever-pitch intensity; yet the climactic dueling scene is performed in virtual darkness...