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...battlefield climax to Kŕ is merely one of the show's hundred or so impossible epiphanies. A royal barge revolves on a placid sea; a boat rocks wildly and sinks; a woman plunges 70 ft. and is dragged back up; a beach suddenly comes to life with an acrobatic starfish and contortionist crabs; a forest of metal tubes features a giant stick bug, a scorpion and an 80-ft. snake; a tepee turns into a man-powered flying machine; actors scale a sheer cliff, an icy mountain--all onstage...
...something in him--the rich baritone and the gaze that saw all and feared nothing--that suggested God on a day full of promise and threat. OSSIE DAVIS, who died last week in Miami Beach, at 87, was an actor, playwright, film director and civil rights spokesman who invested each role with passion and purity. Born Raiford Chatman Davis (the initials R.C. became Ossie), he wrote two successful Broadway shows--Purlie Victorious, a satire of race relations, and its musical version, Purlie--and, decades later, became the patriarchal conscience of seven Spike Lee films (among them Do the Right Thing...
This is not your everyday blue lagoon. It has palm trees, waterfalls and white-sand beaches, but it lies under the vaulted roof of a former zeppelin hangar 60 km south of Berlin. The Tropical Islands Resort opened in December to the rhythm of Brazilian samba bands. Banking on the novelty of being Northern Europe's first indoor tropical getaway - and the Germans' reputation as dedicated beach lovers - Malaysian businessman Colin Au paid $18 million in 2002 for the abandoned hangar after zeppelin maker CargoLifter went bankrupt. He spent $91 million creating the resort, a sparkling lagoon surrounded by thatched...
After retiring in 1996, Rimington wrote Open Secret, a tell-little autobiography that gave her the confidence to try her hand at fiction. "I'm an addicted reader of John le Carré," she says, "so I figured, Why not?" She holed up for long stretches at her beach home in Norfolk, East Anglia, where much of At Risk is set, and leaned heavily on the assistance of novelist Luke Jennings. "I'm quite good at thinking up plots and characters, but I needed help with pacing," she explains...
...Virginia Beach...