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...bride, Adele, is about to be his ex-wife. Invited to Berlin to mount an exhibition of her paintings, she tells Caden she'd prefer that he stay home; she'll take Olive with her. Soon, it's clear, mother and child are gone for good. That leaves Caden open to the adoring advances of Hazel (Samantha Morton), who runs the box office at his theater. Her attentions hardly distract Caden from his obsessive suspicions of a physical breakdown: a bathroom accident has left him with a scar on his forehead and the skin disease known as sycosis. Before long...
...priorities, the inability to speak directly to voters in ways they could easily comprehend, plagued Obama through much of the primary season. His tendency to use big rhetoric in front of big crowds led to McCain's one good spell, after Obama presumptuously spoke to a huge throng in Berlin after his successful Middle East trip. Only a President should make a major address like that overseas. Obama seemed to learn quickly from that mistake; his language during the general-election campaign has been simple, direct and pragmatic. His best moments in the debates came when he explained what...
...felt like I was playing with the Berlin Philharmonic because the orchestra was so incredible,” Koh said...
...Isang Yun concert hall where he performed is an exact replica of the Berlin Philharmonic’s concert hall. In fact, it has slightly better acoustics Koh noted...
...department store jeans. The chorus of village maidens, bodices laced up and hair braided like so many St. Pauli Girls, drink lager out of disposable frat-party cups. A rustic wooden barrel that looks like it might have been used in the original 1821 production at the Konzerthaus in Berlin, shares space on the stage with a blue plastic trash bin that looks like it might have been purchased at the Home Depot in West Roxbury, Mass. The period and setting are never clear, producing an inscrutable operatic haze that frustrates singers and spectators alike.The haze finally cleared?...