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...first act of Shakespeare’s “A Midsummer Night’s Dream,” Lysander tells Hermia, “The course of true love never did run smooth.” Likewise, the course towards a stunning performance of the ballet adapted from this play is full of potholes and detours...
...George Balanchine, at eight years old, appeared as an elf in a Russian production of “A Midsummer Night’s Dream.” The experience revealed his early interest in Shakespeare’s great comedy, but it was Felix Mendelssohn’s music that sparked the transformation of the delightful play into a full ballet. In 1962, New York City Ballet premiered “A Midsummer Night’s Dream,” introducing not only the famous play as a new ballet but also the famous dancer, Balanchine...
...this damned thing work?" Benkler is a leading prophet of today's gift economy, and he fits the part: his bounteous beard resembles Kropotkin's. He was treasurer of a kibbutz, a cooperative farm, in his native Israel. He doesn't mind being called utopian. But neither does Benkler dream of a world without capitalism. Instead, he has become an unlikely business guru, with a shop at the intersection of Commerce and Cooperation. "It's very cool," he says. "I find myself talking to all sorts of weird hackers one day and chief economists of major corporations the next...
...every filmmaker's dream, really," says Hertzfeldt, whose 17-min. movie is playing at the Animation Show, a festival touring the U.S. "Produce your own stories, work largely alone and answer to nobody." Ari Sandel, who's nominated for West Bank Story, his film-school master's thesis, puts its appeal another way: "Look, if it's bad, it's over in 10 minutes...
...this is less a hope than a pipe dream. Obama, like many other Americans, wants to get our troops out of Iraq, whatever the consequences. And some in Congress are so worried that the Bush Administration is even thinking of using military force against Iran that they're discussing legislation prohibiting Bush from doing it. So it's worth asking straightforwardly, Is a propensity to rely on military force a vice to which we Americans are prone? And doesn't the Bush Administration need to learn a lesson about the danger of using military force in pursuit of foreign policy...