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...bridge where, in halting English, they demanded to see the captain; they quizzed Mahalingam and his nine-man crew-eight Kenyans and a Tanzanian-about their religion and told them they were being taken hostage. "The pirates were very calm," says Mahalingam. "They told me this was the 20th ship they had hijacked this year...
...prospect of hanging concentrates the mind, then the horrors of apartheid gave South African writers a focus and an intensity unique in 20th century literature. Not many countries can boast two still-scribbling Nobel prizewinners, J.M. Coetzee and Nadine Gordimer, as well as a mob of socially conscious contenders like Breyten Breytenbach, André Brink, Zakes Mda and dramatist Athol Fugard. Yet since the fall of the race-based regime and the triumph of democracy more than a decade ago, some South African writers and readers have worried that the thrill is gone, the edge lost, the fire dimmed. Like...
...Kent Larson: Louis Kahn's Hurva Synagogue Kahn, one of the 20th century's greatest architects, died in 1974 before the synagogue was built in Jerusalem, and the project died with him. Yet now it exists, virtually, thanks to a stunning act of digital cyber-architecture by architect Larson and computer expert Koji Tsuchiya. They have concocted 20 uncannily realistic ''views'' on a Silicon Graphics workstation. Even the materials are authentic, since Larson digitized photos of the concrete, stone and wood from Kahn's Center for British Art at Yale and used them to ''build'' the synagogue...
...Schindler's List An unlikely, enigmatic hero -- a playboy industrialist -- rescues 1,100 Polish Jews from the Holocaust. In retelling this true story, Steven Spielberg's austere but monumental film re-creates, with chilling immediacy, a central horror of 20th century life and death. Epic cinema, tragic drama, it is also an act of remembrance and conscience that ultimately transcends the ordinary critical categories...
...Bear’s Place. 12 a.m. Tickets available through Ticketmaster or at the door, $10. (DFH)Ongoing EventsDegas at Harvard. Through Nov. 27. Uniting more than 70 of Degas’ paintings, sculptures, and drawings, the exhibit explores the reception of French Impressionism in 20th century America, while presenting some of Degas masterpieces in a new and innovative light. Arthur M. Sackler Museum. Free. (KAK)The Century of Bach and Mozart: Perspectives on Historiography, Perspectives, Composition and Performance. Through Dec. 23. This joint exhibition features original sheet music from the pillars of classical music, as well as an original...