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...this costs money. "I'm astonished at the change," says Gilles Ste- Croix, 45, Cirque's artistic director. "I can have an idea, and when it's evaluated, I can't believe how expensive it is. Every idea we had for Mystere seemed to cost more than $100,000. And I'd say, 'We built a show for that much in '84!' But we spend the money because we want to keep the show of the highest quality. It is the point of the arrow of what...
...Mitterrand joined the youth branch of the French right-wing movement Croix-de-Feu (Cross of Fire) and was photographed at a 1935 demonstration featuring banners reading DEHORS LES METEQUES (or, roughly, GO HOME, FOREIGNERS...
...CROIX, U.S. VIRGIN ISLANDS. Five centuries after the event, the U.S. National Park Service has dedicated a park at the only documented site now part of the U.S. where Christopher Columbus' crew landed on the explorer's second voyage to the New World; the date was Nov. 14, 1493. A 370-hectare enclave on this island's north shore, the Salt River Bay National Historical Park and Ecological Preserve has the largest remaining mangrove forest in the Virgin Islands. The park harbors a wide variety of endangered flora and fauna, including giant swamp ferns and bottle-nosed dolphins, and includes...
Lorde, who died in December, explains here her process of revision which was inspired by the destruction of her home in St. Croix, Virgin Islands by Hurricane Hugo in 1989. In her introduction, she writes that in revising she kept two questions before her: "first, What did I want my readers to feel? and second, What was the work of this poem (its task in the world)?" The varying answers to these questions are apparent in every poem; a passion and sense of history shine through like "a molten hot light...
...oracle herself resides in a modest subdivision of Stillwater, Minn., & replete with neat lawns and American flags. Beattie (that's Beet-y) sits in the sun in a cafe along the St. Croix River with tall pines casting a shadow on the water and her 42-ft. houseboat, Nightsong, floating placidly down the way. In her calm, girlish voice, she orders decaffeinated coffee before a light lunch ("I let go of caffeine this year"). Beattie leads a pure, "land-o'-lakes" life and has a sense of, well, serenity. This wasn't always so. The sleeves of her soft blouse...