Word: expression
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...garner the favour of his people by convincing them that he possesses bizarre mystical and religious powers. (Precisely why he wishes to establish himself as a figure of such supreme adulation is left unclear, but let's just assume that life, liberty, and the pursuit of an American Express Platinum Card have something to do with it.) Because he, of course, is not endowed with any such powers, sneaky Omar is forced to hire a cockney magician to entrance the unenlightened masses with an haute-rock-concert laser light show which will somehow convince them that he is none other...
AFTER WAITING AND waiting--like the business executive in the TV and who didn't use Federal Express--we have finally been rewarded with Dean of the Faculty A. Michael Spence's authoritative report on the dicey little matter of Middle Eastern Studies Center Director Nadav Safran and his more than $150,000 in Central Intelligence Agency grants...
Late one Dec. 24, a boy finds a train stopped outside his house. A conductor beckons him aboard. It is the first of many astonishments in The Polar Express + by Chris Van Allsburg (Houghton Mifflin; $15.95). Other surprises include club cars full of similarly dazed children in pajamas and nightgowns, woods full of wolves and, finally, the frozen sea of the polar ice cap--Santa Claus country. Van Allsburg has given the commonplace a legendary air, and the boy's return seems every bit as gilded as the elves, Santa's airborne sled and the homeward-bound express train, with...
Wisely, Glass and Moran have chosen to emphasize the tale's elements of love and redemption, instead of its gruesome aspects. Glass's familiar style is aptly suited to express transfigured states like the fatal ecstasy of the first wife, who dies giving birth to her beloved son, while Moran's more muscular music communicates the horror of the murder without wallowing in it, the way the detached, matterof-fact language of a fable does...
...plant will change the nature of their little town. On the other hand, the Zeysing's son Herbert, 27, who looks after 65 head of cattle on one of the family's farms, smells opportunity. He has advised his parents to "listen before they say no" to speculators who express interest in buying their property. Meanwhile, Herbert is confidently launching a new business: a used...