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...recent alternative to hard copy publishing, with the advantage of more writers having access to more work from more places. But the possibility exists that the good writing-which, Fagin and North agree, can take years to be recognized as such-might be deleted before it achieves any critical acclaim...
With good or bad luck, Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon would have provided a stern challenge. Consider these factors: a $15 million action movie that was also to be a poignant, tragic romance; a fight choreographer, Yuen Wo-ping, who had won international acclaim for his work on The Matrix and was bound to tangle with the soft-spoken, hard-to-budge Lee; a top-flight all-Asian cast featuring Chow Yun Fat (Hong Kong), Michelle Yeoh (Malaysia), Zhang Ziyi (Beijing) and Chang Chen (Taiwan). Only one of the stars--Zhang, then a 19-year-old ingenue--spoke anything like...
This modest explanation hardly does justice to a cerebral process that has resulted in the world's first successful man-powered and solar-powered aircraft, earned its owner the title of Engineer of the Century from the American Society of Mechanical Engineers and won him worldwide acclaim. Now at 75 he is still spewing out offbeat and innovative ideas faster than his creative team at AeroVironment can act on them. Currently in the works are projects ranging from a solar-powered, unmanned plane with a wingspan nearly as large as a football field to a pocket-size device that substitutes...
...what to think of this album. First of all, let's put the matter to rest. Gomez are good. They are very good. Their debut album Bring It On won one of England's most prestigious music awards, the Mercury Music Prize. Their 1999 American tour brought much critical acclaim and the approval of countless audiences. But the best thing about Gomez is that they don't seem to take themselves too seriously. Having said that, there not much apart from the inherent joy of the music that unites Gomez's sound. Abandoned Shopping Trolley Hotline is a motley collection...
...sodomite. The trials made Wilde a criminal in his own day and a hero in ours, and they now form the basis of Moises Kaufman's ingenious play Gross Indecency: The Three Trials of Oscar Wilde, in production in the Loeb Experimental Theater this weekend. The play received widespread acclaim Off Broadway, and its Harvard incarnation is sure to be every bit as exciting. So head to the Loeb Ex to find out the true story of one of the world's most famous literary and social martyrdoms...