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Since Prince's debut in 1978 with For You, the combination of raunch with a twisted kind of spirituality has been His Purple Badness's forte. His unconventional equation of sex with art has been rivalled only by Madonna. Whether he's crooning about his latest conquest or trying to entice a woman to fall into bed and in love with him, his musical virtuosity has always shined through his licentiousness...
...choreographer Quinny Sacks, set designer Robert Israel and director David Pountney are also aboard -- manages to embrace not only the explorer's first trip to the New World but also the electric dreams of Stephen Hawking, the arrival of aliens on Earth during the Ice Age, and humanity's conquest of space. Characters sing suspended in outer space, sets soar through the air like rocket ships, and the hydraulic stage heaves like waves in a storm, propelling the extraterrestrials and Columbus' crew alike toward their unknown destinations. With a commissioning fee to Glass of $325,000 (about half of which...
...CONQUEST CAME WITH SURPRISING EASE. FOR months Serb forces have struggled to secure a broad corridor across northern Bosnia connecting Croatian regions they control with Serbia itself. The town of Bosanski Brod, where Muslim and Croat troops were easily supplied from across the Sava River in Croatia, was a stone in their path...
...cold war -- dominated the geopolitical map of the 20th century, economics will rule over the 21st. All the big questions confronting the world in the century ahead are basically economic. Is the U.S. in an irreversible decline as the world's premier power? Will Japan continue its competitive conquest of international markets? Can Europe manage to hold together the world's largest trade bloc in the face of strong centrifugal forces? And does the future hold any hope at all for the poverty-stricken Third World...
While the Spanish conquest of the Americas was a cruel, bloody and brutal event, from it arose a new, vibrant culture, novelist Carlos Fuentes told approximately 400 people gathered at the Arco Forum Sunday afternoon...