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...Bush, Hu smile, pledge cooperation, but make little progress,” read the apt Associated Press headline describing Hu Jintao’s visit to the U.S. last week. Indeed, behind the speeches, photo-ops, pomp, pageantry, and protesters was a fundamental tension and conflict on a variety of issues including human rights, North Korea, and, of course, the elephant in the room: Chinese trade policy. But despite our disagreements, it is important to remember that economic protectionism is not the answer. As more and more items say “made in China” on them...
...classic love-and-death story. Leonardo DiCaprio and Claire Danes, respectively 21 and 16 when they filmed it in 1996, bring youth's melancholy fever to the fable. Luhrmann might be chided for pandering to the youth market, but forget that. His fireworks and camerabatics are an apt and bracing visual equivalent to Shakespeare's swooning iambic pentameter...
Presidential candidate John Kerry’s weak responses to accusations about his military conduct in Vietnam are an apt example...
...fast-paced funk to Chuck D’s harder, self-satisfied flow to Rahzel’s use of his own voice as a technological instrument. “The Craft” is the title of Blackalicious’ new album and it’s an apt title for output by the group. During their slightly-longer-than-an-hour set, which focused mostly on their newest material and their recent “Broken Arrow,” they displayed considerable craft. Each song had its separate pieces that were put together elegantly. The crowd enthusiastically...
...other, choosing instead to act for the audience. Weill and Brecht do write scenes of the opera intended to be addressed to the audience, but the LHO actors tend to do it all too often.While titled “The Threepenny Opera,” it might be more apt to call it a musical, as the work depends heavily on the spoken scenes in between songs. These interludes, which range from good (the first prison scene with Lucy) to baffling (the entire first act) are often compromised in this production by a reliance on overacting. This issue results...