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...battlefield climax to Ką is merely one of the show's hundred or so impossible epiphanies. A royal barge revolves on a placid sea; a boat rocks wildly and sinks; a woman plunges 70 ft. and is dragged back up; a beach suddenly comes to life with an acrobatic starfish and contortionist crabs; a forest of metal tubes features a giant stick bug, a scorpion and an 80-ft. snake; a tepee turns into a man-powered flying machine; actors scale a sheer cliff, an icy mountain--all onstage...
Within a few months, as the invasion of Afghanistan reached its climax, hundreds of captured al-Qaeda fighters and irregulars fighting for the Taliban regime were shipped to the naval base at Guant??namo Bay for interrogation. Gonzales wrote a memo to Bush in January 2002 that described aspects of the Geneva protocols as "quaint" and "obsolete." A few weeks later, Bush signed an order deeming al-Qaeda combatants "unlawful" and thus not deserving of prisoner-of-war status or the protections Geneva provided. "The war on terrorism," wrote Bush, "... ushered in not by us but by terrorists, requires...
...public functions made Victoria for a time almost hated by subjects who rightly considered England's living problems more important than the late Prince Consort. Only in Victoria's great age, when she plucked up heart and spirits again, emerging as Empress of India at the climax of Britain's greatest period of Imperialism, was the Queen for a twilight span surpassingly adored. Down the ages the name of Victoria will resound, while the fifth George is perhaps secure in history only as George V. But all his life he has been and today he remains England...
...terraced plateau, into gilded pleasure domes worthy of Kubla Khan, with cavernous interiors of blue and silver, red and gold, transporting audiences into ecstasy. But when Utzon left the project in 1966, leaving its completion to a committee of local designers, audiences were left without their climax. Halls were swapped, interiors muted and Utzon's iconic shells became, in his own words, "a false thing...
...which reveals his original vaulted ceiling, the bare bones of his genius. The room has also been designed to be viewed from outside, and at night Utzon's 14-m tapestry, inspired by Bach's Hamburg Symphonies, reads like a bejewelled sheet of music. It might not be the climax audiences were after; for this, they must wait for Utzon's upcoming plans for the Opera Theatre. But there's harmony at last...