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...music is too fragile, structurally too perfect,” he said. “As if, when you threw a branch, it would fall apart.” But while Mozart’s music is structurally sound, its supposed difficulty simply creates an intimidating aura around the composer’s work. “Mozart’s music is great,” he said. “Why not dance...
...Told Him ToThat moment lends Eli the aura of a divinity. Is he God, making a personal inspection of what humanity has done to his earth? Could be: Eli is the Semitic word for a supreme being. He says that after the big flash, a voice told him to take the Bible and go West, so he might be Brigham Young leading the Mormons to Utah, or any number of cult leaders who found acolytes in California. Eli could also be a jihadist, using a holy book as his moral cue to annihilate the infidels. He acknowledges that the Bible...
Will all this access diminish the festival's aura of exclusivity? Cooper and company don't seem concerned. For 2010, the Sundance mantra might as well be, The more eyeballs, the better...
...About 25% of family members with migraines were depressed, vs. just 12% of relatives without migraines. Correcting for the role of chance, researchers found that, overall, relatives with migraines are 1.4 times as likely to have migraine and depression together rather than migraine alone. Those suffering from migraine with aura (the flashing lights and tunnel vision that precedes some migraine headaches) were nearly twice as likely to suffer from depression. (See the top 10 medical breakthroughs...
...their own TV-serial candidates. Sita exerts tremendous power over Indian popular culture: she is the bane of feminists, the impossible ideal held up by disapproving in-laws and yet, for many women, an object of devotion. What political party wouldn't like some of that heady aura in the polling booth...