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...judge has to examine every credible claim concerning whether the defendant received a fair trail and, if not, entertain the possibility of reopening it,” he added. “I have much faith in the judicial process to ultimately reach the right result in this case...
...across Europe, the U.S. and Australia), the track looks set to top the British singles chart this week, a first for a ring tone. That "might be a little embarrassing" for Coldplay, admits HMV spokesman Gennaro Castaldo, but it's a hit with Jamster!, the Berlin-based mobile-phone entertain- ment firm that's already earned millions in Crazy Frog ring-tone sales. Jamster!, which is owned by U.S. software firm VeriSign, receives a slice of sales of the CD single, due for release in France this week. Will ring tones soon regularly outsell rock stars? Do the French like...
...named after a Viking rune symbolizing fertility, the clarinet threatens to soar at any moment into Gershwin-like rhapsody, but gives birth to something else - music as anthropology. For her 2000 opera Moon Spirit Feasting, the composer spent time in Malaysia observing the Hungry Ghost Festival, when Chinese communities entertain ancestral spirits with a month of street theater and song. In this sense, Lim's music is a votive offering to her past...
...remains a passionate, often politically incorrect, advocate for the black community. In 1996 he caused a ruckus with a speech in which he called for a separate African-American theater, castigated black playwrights and directors for participating in an "art that is conceived and designed to entertain white society" and decried the increasingly fashionable practice of "color-blind casting"--i.e., blacks playing traditionally white roles. The outcry was fierce; the drama critic Robert Brustein, in a blistering rebuttal in the New Republic, disparaged Wilson's plays and denounced his words as the "language of self-segregation...
There are rules, though, for movie-makers; they have a duty to entertain and, especially when they are projecting the future, offer cautionary instruction to the audience. How effortlessly this sequence does both. For Thunderdome is both hall of justice and cultural center for Bartertown, presided over by Aunty Entity (Tina Turner), purring like a tiger and claiming she has created civilization's highest flowering since nuclear devastation. Indeed she has, if an imitation of late 20th century city life--all junk, improvisations and random brutality--is your idea of civilization. Thunderdome brilliantly clarifies that irony. Its high-bounding excesses...