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...Uncle Sam that read, "Smash the USA." When he introduced George Gershwin's An American in Paris, Maazel told the audience that perhaps one day another composer would write a symphony entitled "An American in Pyongyang." Whatever ambivalence the North Korean audience may have felt until then evaporated. The crowd laughed - and applauded long and hard. "From that point on," Maazel later said, "you could just feel the warmth in the room...
...have dragged on, the refugees are growing increasingly militant. In one corner of the market camp, villagers have stockpiled sharpened bamboo stakes - a defense against possible forced eviction. The villagers have also directed their anger at local officials regarded as allies of the company. At one recent protest, a crowd of about 200 people occupied a government compound to demand the resignation of a village chief. The demonstration began almost casually, with families picnicking or resting beneath the shade of a banyan tree. But tempers rose with the broiling midday heat. A squad of policemen armed with machine guns arrived...
...dark-clad crowd at a cemetery in the Serbian town of Novi Sad listened respectfully to the tributes at the Feb. 26 funeral of Zoran Vujovic. The rector of his university said the 20-year-old Serb had died expressing "justified anger" at the West. His uncle called him "one of the many martyrs of Kosovo." And the tabloid Pravda declared: FAREWELL TO THE SERBIAN KNIGHT! Amid the eulogies, the circumstances of the engineering student's death bear recalling: having broken into the U.S. embassy in Belgrade on Feb. 21, he was incinerated when a fellow protester tossed...
...Yard and was well rewarded for his effort. “It was really well done,” says Timothy, “If every other one is as good as this one, I’ll definitely participate.” Despite the alone-in-a-crowd nature of the event, some tasks involved working with others. At one point in the throwdown, dancers were instructed to look for a familiar face—Moses, who then lead them in a conga line. With limited interpersonal interaction and intellectual references to art and religion, the party...
When Maazel introduced George Gershwin's "An American in Paris" to the audience, he told them that perhaps one day another composer would write a famous symphony entitled "An American in Pyongyang." Whatever ambivalence the North Korean audience may have felt until then evaporated. The crowd laughed - and applauded long and hard. "From that point on," Maazel would later say, "you could just feel the warmth in the room." For the Korean audience, however, the most powerful piece was the one the orchestra played last: Arirang, a traditional Korean folk anthem loved in both North and South...