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TITLE: DAS WUNDER DER HELIANE...
Today, however, he is best remembered as a composer of colorful, sweeping Hollywood film scores such as Captain Blood and The Adventures of Robin Hood. What happened? A new recording of the 1927 opera that Korngold always considered his masterpiece, Das Wunder der Heliane (The Miracle of Heliane), offers some clues...
...perhaps inevitable, given the rapid growth of computer networks, that people would find a way to use the new communications technology to share their most intimate urges. Sex, as Gerard van der Leun writes in the new computer-hip magazine Wired, "is a heat-seeking missile that forever seeks out the newest medium for its transmission." He cites the spread of printed smut in post-Gutenberg Europe, pornographic pictures in the age of photolithography, X-rated tapes in the video stores and dial-a-porn services on the 900 telephone lines...
...A.N.C. leaders say, is that South African President F.W. DE KLERK, dogged by allegations of security force abuses, would like to clean house in the military, and an interim government would give him the political cover to do so. Probably the first to go will be ! General C.P. van der Westhuizen, the head of military intelligence, who was accused of telling a security official in 1985 that an A.N.C. leader should be "permanently removed from society." Two weeks later, the activist was murdered...
...merely a new constraint on his profession, but has the potential to create a new aesthetic. It was the unfortunate coincidence of cheap oil and the ability to fabricate large sheets of glass, he argues, that led to the "modern" office buildings pioneered by architects like Mies van der Rohe in the 1950s. Architectural movements since then -- notably postmodernism -- have been purely superficial, decorative responses to that style. "That's why this movement is so exciting," says McDonough. "What is it made out of? How is it made? We're not talking about just another glib exercise in artifice...