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...audiences in the era of roaming broadband and speed punk. During the past two years, he and his team have compressed epic Kunqu scripts until they play about as long as the average movie, and introduced other innovations. The changes are finally starting to draw respectable audiences of curious Shanghainese. At last summer's three-week run of Palace of Eternal Youth, a Tang dynasty love tragedy, two thirds of the audience were under the age of 35, and the production netted $92,000 - modest by the standards of Covent Garden or La Scala, but equal to the Shanghai Kunqu...
...Harvard’s Allston development project. The article said Montañez attended the meeting and quoted him several times. In his email, Montañez said he was neither at the meeting nor did he say the quoted sentences, and he, quite understatedly, was “curious as to why I was quoted.” It turns out the reporter, who does not normally cover Allston issues, had thought she had heard the BRA official who spoke referred to as “Carlos.” When she found out there was a Carlos...
Befuddled by the crush of developments and not trusting the JAM, yet curious to see what would happen next, the local American commander sent his men out on night and early morning patrols to the Haswah area as usual, even amid radio reports that the main routes were laden with freshly planted EFPs and that at least 1,000 JAM reinforcements were on their way down from Baghdad's Sadr City, the massive JAM stronghold in the capital. The Americans knew whom they would apprehend in the event of a JAM attack: the lead JAM sheik in the negotiation said...
...will have none of that, and a curious thing happens as he embraces what amounts to temporary insanity; our sympathy shifts to Ruffalo's Dwight, as slowly he begins to rediscover his better self. We have no doubt that, eventually, he will do the right thing and turn himself in. If, that is, the grief-maddened Ethan does not find and kill him before that happens. Put simply, the suspense of this movie derives less from its dramatic premise than it does from vivid, increasingly contrasted, characters. It sometimes feels a bit repetitive - each of the two men is stuck...
...greatest virtuoso and curioso that ever was known or read of in England before his time.’”FAD FOR THE FAUXIn 1677 Ashmole donated the collection to Oxford University, which in turn created the world’s first University Museum, the Ashmolean.A curious clause in Ashmole’s bequeathal stipulated the museum remove decaying specimens to maintain the collection’s integrity.By 1775, the dodo, now at Oxford’s Museum of Natural History, had grown “too tattery,” Berry said. “The dodo...