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...developments. Chinese, Korean and Japanese hanging scrolls illustrate and record Buddhist “sutras,” or sacred texts. Ceremonial objects such as Chinese censers and Tibetan bell handles bring to mind images of traditional Buddhist ceremonies. Wooden and brass statues, as well as several scroll paintings, depict frightening monsters who serve as protector deities that ward off demons...
...exhibit’s informal centerpiece consists of four monumental hanging scroll paintings that depict “The Kings of Hell.” In the Buddhist tradition, the Kings of Hell controlled the fate of the dead, judging good and bad deeds and meting out horrific punishments. The scroll paintings – from China, Korea, and Japan – present these scenes of the underworld in similar fashions, evidence of a strict adherence to iconographic convention throughout East Asia. “I hope the viewer realizes that Buddhist subject matter remains the same in Asian...
...subordinating them to the plot. The novel maintains a fantastic tension throughout, with just the right number of pauses to let the reader catch his breath. The tone is spot-on; the ever-present sense of doom hovers cloudlike throughout, as befits a novel of war. Roberts manages to depict the war realistically and beautifully, reminding us that actions have consequences, that war and death are often far less glorious than propaganda would have them be. The official canon largely skirted the implications of war, preferring a simplified tale of good vs. evil. Roberts refuses to shy from describing...
...during the siege. "The trial proceeded rather rapidly," Trunov commented, "because the court accepted neither witnesses nor evidence nor experts." In a move that Trunov said was designed to turn him from an advocate into a potential witness in a criminal case, prosecutors also demanded a videotape said to depict conditions inside the besieged theater, and also sought to question him about the tape's origins. Trunov tried to introduce the tape - which he says came from a hostage - into evidence, but Gorbacheva declined. "It's just footage of what was happening in the theater hall," he says. "How they...
...about writing instead of that other shit!" He approves, too, of Supple's grand staging. The director is throwing every theatrical device in the book at the show - intricate sound and lighting plots, rich costumes brought from India, even a cinema screen that can split into four to help depict the different narrative strands. The operating principle, says Rushdie, is excess. "Everything in this stage version should be excessive, sensual, tumultuous, colorful. That was my view of urban India in that period." After a five-week run in London, the show will go to the U.S., first to Ann Arbor...