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...dialogue fat and added muscle and connective tissue. The piece, which took place on a bare stage, now roams through a handsome Quebec abbey and beyond. Within or outside the convent, however, Agnes would be a girlish anachronism. She is of another age--perhaps 13, perhaps the 13th century. She believes, like a medieval ascetic, that any seeker of sanctity should flagellate the sins out of her body, and she is convinced that the child she carries is a gift from the living God. The blood that pours from her body is a sign of both punishment and fulfillment...
...sweet, heavily padded people who can fly: Superman and Supergirl. A big-budget fantasy about Santa Claus (the myth) might seem as natural as raindrops on roses and whiskers on kittens, but it's more like coal in Christmas stockings. As presented in this "nondenominational" version, Claus was a 13th century woodcutter who died and went to the North Pole, where he was greeted as the Chosen One and given a couple hundred elves as his assistants. Stars shine in the north; a UNESCO chorale ladles Bosco over Henry Mancini's syrupy score; Dudley Moore, the chief elf, actually says...
Just this Christmas past, Naomi Judd, a local girl made very good indeed, went back home to Ashland, Ky. She stopped off at the white bungalow where she had been raised, then moved on to Jane's beauty salon on 13th Street to "get a manicure, now that I have this diamond ring." At 39, Naomi Judd had no great familiarity with gems or with manicures--this was her first--and she was barely getting accustomed to celebrity. "I heard you were making it big as a singer, and I pictured you in a gingham dress," said a friend...
...Crimson varsity crossed the line more than 12 boat lengths ahead of Yale. Harvard tacked on nine more boat lengths of open water in the last two miles. The time was the 13th fastest in the Harvard-Yale regatta, the oldest collegiate athletic competition. Yale finished...
...harsh, with the ancient sounds of the Japanese harp giving way, in one piece, to the ringing of tuned glass bottles. In the shifting tones, a faint harmony seems just out of reach. Lim likens the effect to "birdsong beginning inside the egg," a phrase she quotes from the 13th century Sufi mystic Jelaluddin Rumi. Even classical audiences can find Lim's music obscure. "The point for Liza is not about winning a popularity contest," says her husband and collaborator Buckley, who studied with Lim at Melbourne's Victorian College of the Arts. "It's not a conversation saying...