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...Mark Twain," but he's no Mark Twain. Actually, he's pretty sentimental and pedestrian.) Anyway, Lawson got that one right, about sports. Since colonial days, when diggers on the goldfields made sure they always had time at the end of the day for a football match or a bare-knuckle fight, Australia has cherished games of all sorts. Harry Gordon is what they call the dean of Australian sportswriters just now, and he feels the country's sports nuttiness "was nourished by distance, a sense of inferiority and a desire for oneness." Maybe so. Did you know Australia...
Christina Aguilera seems too small to contain her voice. The 19-year-old singer's bare waist--so thin you'd think it could fit between two parentheses--looks too tiny to support the strong, soulful melismata that flow from her lips. In fact, Aguilera's talent seems to require more space than the teen-pop world can provide. While Mandy Moore and the like go comfortably about the business of churning out plastic pop--and Britney Spears manufactures successful distractions like her strip tease at the recent MTV Video Music Awards--Aguilera's vocals strain and flutter against...
...course, each print is interesting in itself. DŸrer is in the details - floating loincloths, skulls, cross-hatching. But DŸrer was more than an engraver. Curator Jordan Kantor borrowed rare works from European museums, bare but masterful drawing and sketches...
...Michael Frayn's Copenhagen is quite a bore. It has a remarkable capacity to keep the audience in its place. Dealing with issues of physical and historical certainty through a meeting between the physicists Neils Bohr (Phillip Bosco) and Werner Heisenberg (Michael Cumpsty), the show is performed on a bare set designed to resemble a Bohr model of an atom. It would be a real shame, though, to write off this show. In fact, if given the attention it deserves, the play proves as thought-provoking and as captivating as any new play in recent memory. The acting, particularly that...
...bare two centuries old, Sydney has grown into one of the world's great cities, a bustling repository of dreams for its four million inhabitants, whether their aim is to take on global financial markets, dazzle the world's artistic or sporting communities-or tend the backyard of their quarter-acre suburban block. Allowing for differences in size, Sydney is as exciting as New York, as sophisticated as Paris, as colorful as Hong Kong and as irreverent as '60s London...