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...tale of a woman approaching middle age who doesn't know exactly what she wants (because she secretly knows that what she wants is irresponsibility) sounds like familiar stuff. But Grunwald tells the story with a wit-a bride wears an "expression of tranquilized charm"-that never quite conceals the sting of wisdom just below. Perhaps it's no surprise that by the end of her well-turned and winning tale, we see and feel, as Farber does, that the pursuit of happiness is really nothing more than a recipe for misery. -By Pico Iyer
...parents in Perth before growing up in Brunei and, later, Melbourne, Lim is cross-fertilization in action. Her music embodies the process. The Alchemical Wedding, which elision premiered at the Melbourne Festival in 1996, shifts almost imperceptibly between Western and Eastern sounds, from contrabassoon to erhu (as bridegroom and bride), in a sliding scale of culture. With Inguz (1996), named after a Viking rune symbolizing fertility, the clarinet threatens to soar at any moment into Gershwin-like rhapsody, but gives birth to something else - music as anthropology. For her 2000 opera Moon Spirit Feasting, the composer spent time in Malaysia...
...Should the bride change her last name when she gets married...
...proud man is usually called upon to release a public statement that his son, the chump, intends to stand by the bride, assuming he can find...
...bride and/or the groom is allowed as much as one month after the gift registry has been posted on the CNN website or has been ridiculed by late-night talk-show hosts, whichever comes first...