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Your cover relegates man to a papier-mâché dummy and glorifies a machine. No wonder E.T. wanted to go home...
...come two radical settings of Wagner. German avant-garde Film Maker Hans-Jürgen Syberberg's 4½-hour Parsifal is a heavily symbolic interpretation that, among other extraordinary devices, uses the composer's own face as a set. French Theater Director Patrice Chéreau's complete The Ring of the Nibelung (starting Jan. 17 on PBS with a documentary and continuing a week later with Das Rheingold) is a brash, iconoclastic view that sets the four-opera cycle in the mid-19th century, when Wagner wrote it. The videotaped Bayreuth Ring succeeds triumphantly, while...
...Ring is more sophisticated and more imaginative. In selecting Chéreau, Bayreuth Festival Director Wolfgang Wagner, the composer's grandson, gambled that the French enfant terrible would inject bold ideas into the family opera enterprise. He was right. Chéreau began by setting the legend during the social upheaval of the Industrial Revolution. His Rhine maidens are a trio of prostitutes frolicking by a hydroelectric dam, and his Wotan is decked out as a rich capitalist. In 1976 audiences were outraged, but by the end of the run in 1980, when the production was filmed, the Ring...
During a visit to Washington last week, Fidel Chávez Mena, El Salvador's Foreign Minister, expressed hope that the case will be resolved by late January, when the Administration must once again certify that the embattled country remains eligible for American aid. U.S. embassy officials in San Salvador, however, are not optimistic that the trial will persuade Congress that El Salvador has bettered its human rights record. Members of Congress have their eye on another case in which justice has proved less than speedy: accusations that high-ranking army officers ordered the murder of two U.S. land...
...Wharton's previous novels, Birdy and Dad, does not benefit from having its plot laid bare. The author's gift is an ability to convey emotional clarity in simple prose that transforms incongruities into sharp visual impressions. Snowy woods are both Christmas cards and killing grounds; the château is fortress and cultural repository. A violin liberated from beneath the rafters becomes part of an unusual still life when it is casually set against a box of hand grenades...