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...Muslims in Jerusalem, and with Americans in New York City and Austin, Texas, it is a three-act, multimedia, audiovisual collaboration between the pioneering minimalist composer and his wife, the video artist Beryl Korot. By turns fascinating and frustrating, The Cave, which will have other performances this year in Berlin, Amsterdam, London, Brooklyn, Paris and Brussels, stands on its own as a breakthrough piece for Reich and a tantalizing glimpse of what opera might be like in the 21st century...
...much decayed, if San Francisco had a huge, smoking volcano where the Bay Bridge is. White-robed priests police thought and behavior and try to capture a graffiti artist who scrawls THE PURSUIT OF HAPPINESS on the same wall every day. The novel veers to turn-of- the-millennium Berlin, where a writer named Steve Erickson is murdered, then to an old recluse named Tom in the American desert, then to what must be early 19th century Monticello, where Jefferson and John Adams jaw dispiritedly about a vast slave rebellion that has taken over Virginia...
That is what most of the argument is about. At Washington dinner parties, you hear the questions: Why put it in Washington? Why not in Berlin, say? Or else: Why should the Germans suffer this kind of permanently installed American rebuke, as if the years of Hitler were all of German history? And why would Americans build a memorial and museum to the European Holocaust before installing a remembrance, say, of slavery and the black American struggle, or of the devastation of American Indian life? The premise is that America's sacred statuary memory belongs to things that happened...
...TODESFALLE UNTER PALMEN! SCREAMED THE German tabloid. deathtrap under the palms! In the language of Florida tourism, that had worrisome further meanings: shame and financial peril. After Berlin special-education teacher Barbara Meller Jensen strayed off I-95 near Miami and was brutally murdered in front of her children in a "bump-and-run" robbery, German Consul General Klaus Sommer considered warning other Germans away from the city. Jensen was the sixth foreign (and third German) tourist killed in Florida since December...
...crisis began building long before the Berlin Wall fell in 1989. The fundamental problem is that an ideology based on 19th century industrial relations has lost its meaning in a world where the nature of class and work has changed. The conditions that gave birth to socialism have ceased to exist. The improved lot of European workers -- rising prosperity, upward social mobility, increased access to property -- has lifted most of them into the middle class and deprived socialist parties of their natural electoral base. "As a result of economic changes, the working class all over the West has been shrinking...