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...neighboring Trinidad, nervous Venezuelan farmers began crossing the criollo with a lesser but more resilient bean by about 1825. As a result, the criollo was all but lost. It didn't help that Venezuela began to focus on more lucrative resources such as coffee and, in the early 20th century, oil. Today, "for every sack of cacao, 10 million bbl. of oil are produced" in Venezuela, Rosenberg notes. "In an oil economy, cacao is simply not that competitive...
...this production, she has a lot of strength and comes into her own by the end.” Unlike the straightforward and approachable libretto, many still regard the music itself as a significant challenge for the performers and the audience alike. With musical content that is strikingly 20th century, music director Yuga J. Cohler ’11 notes that devices such as irregular and syncopated rhythms contribute to the rather bizarre quality of the music, which is neither completely dissonant nor exclusively modern. “Stravinsky wrote it in a more convoluted way than was necessary...
...places - the titular blank spots -inherently inform us of their exact locations: "Secrets, in other words, often inevitably announce their own existence." Over the next 250 pages, Paglen goes on to sketch out a survey of the dark corners of the United States' national security apparatus from the early 20th century to today...
...want to add a little romance to my life"...[But] when it comes to the world of dating and romance, they are quite uncertain because it's been awhile. What does a man expect? Who pays? Who calls? What do I reveal about myself? (See pictures of the 20th century's greatest romances...
...Photos: 20th Century Britain...