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...DIED. HERBIE MANN, 73, pioneering jazz flutist whose experimentation in diverse musical genres won him listeners while alienating jazz purists; in Pecos, New Mexico. Mann helped popularize Brazilian music before venturing forth into the realms of disco, reggae and klezmer...
...phase of the bold plan has run into a wall of financial and political trouble. In May, one of Krens' most cherished projects - the Rem Koolhaas-designed Guggenheim Museum Las Vegas - closed due to plummeting attendance a mere two years after its much-hyped opening. And last month, a Brazilian judge dramatically halted Krens' plans to build a dazzling new Guggenheim Museum in Rio de Janeiro; opponents are questioning the mayor's power to authorize the project. The world just isn't smiling on expansionist Americans these days, and Krens has become known as one of the most complex personalities...
...Lars von Trier's Dogville, which had all the early buzz but left without any prizes, a beautiful stranger (Nicole Kidman) takes a load of abuse in a Colorado town, then, like an Old Testament God in an I'm-sick-of-Sodom mood, has everyone gunned down. Brazilian director Hector Babenco ended his Carandiru with the slaughter of innocents in a S?o Paulo jail, and Austrian Michael Haneke depicted the moral chaos attending an unexplained disaster in his testy The Time of the Wolf...
...beach, lush weather and gorgeous people were never so seductive. As beautiful as it was outside the Palais, that's how depressing it was inside. Good movies, bad ones - and a huge batch of pictures that could be called ambitious mediocrities - all had the tone of apocalyptic despair. Brazilian director Hector Babenco ended his Carandiru with the slaughter of innocents in a São Paulo jail. Austrian Michael Haneke depicted the moral chaos attending an unspecified disaster in his testy The Time of the Wolf. Even Denys Arcand's genial The Barbarian Invasions, a French-Canadian billet-doux...
This year, that work has reached its culmination. After she created her own special concentration in performance studies two years ago, Braxton-Brooks presented her performance thesis, The House that Ansiedade Built, in the Loeb Experimental Theater in March. The interdisciplinary dance-and-acting show treated tourist perceptions of Brazilian society...