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...war’s devastation. Significantly, this scene of ruin is not specifically Greek or Trojan, modern or ancient. The set instead pays homage to the play’s presentation of personal history.As Evans writes in her Playwright’s Note, “Inside the driest desert is the murmured dream of the sea, and under the Greek poetry that immortalizes sacrificial virgins we can find living girls full of rebellion, botched home-made tattoos, and too-short skirts.” To be sure, the play’s plasticized playthings transcend both time and space...
...world just couldn’t get any wackier, more challenges confront the Black Kids. They battle skull-headed demons with force fields. Their two-pronged swords of light flash against the darkness. They even manage to find a glowing volume of spells flat in the middle of the desert. Theirs is a universe where the unreal is realized. The band’s name is even seen in lights not once, not twice, but four times. In short, they “don’t care what you’ve been taught.” In this...
...case of Disneynature's first big-screen venture, it is largely that: a transplant and blow-up of a TV documentary to the big screen. In Earth, filmmakers Mark Linfield and Alastair Fothergill capture a caravan of elephants crossing the brutal Kalahari Desert, along with a pride of hungry lions, and the rainbow of natural marvels contained in the rainforests of Papua New Guinea. The narrative theme is the sun, the source of life and the bringer of seasons, from one pole to the other. The film is narrated by James Earl Jones...
...budgets can help prop up smaller local industries - had stayed away. With apartheid gone and sanctions lifted, that changed. Television commercial producers from around the globe discovered that Cape Town combined a spectacular location with skilled, cheap crews. Movie makers found that South Africa's diverse landscape - savannah to desert, winelands to white-sand beaches - could stand in for almost anywhere, while the people of the Rainbow Nation, with a carefully placed sombrero here or a hijab there, could be almost anyone. Hollywood descended. In the last few years, South Africa has doubled as 16th century England, Iraq, Mexico...
...fact that organisms can survive in extreme - seemingly lethal - conditions is nothing new. Researchers have found creatures living at boiling vents on the floor of the ocean, in desert sands that virtually never see water; fossilized remains of microorganisms have even been found inside of rocks. Antarctic life, however, has always been a more complex matter. Antarctica was once a warmer, wetter land than it is now, but continental migration pushed it from place to place, leaving it - for the current epoch at least - at the bottom of the planet, where it became little more than a frozen desert...