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...growing digital divide," says Philip Burgess, president of the Center for the New West, an advocacy group whose board includes Solomon Trujillo, ceo of regional phone giant US West, and Utah Governor Michael Leavitt. The gulf, Burgess warns, could have "dire implications" for the social and economic fabric of many communities, particularly those in sparsely populated Western states...
...face of it, who in the British theater world appears more established, and Establishment, than playwright David Hare? Last year, despite his decades of scathingly political writing targeted at the holy trinity of monarchy, government and church, he was knighted. In London, where the theater is woven into the fabric of everyday life as in no other place in the world, Hare is one of the city's most popular and prolific craftsmen. In 1998 four of his works were staged--four new works, that is--and all did well enough to make...
...frustrating labor and scores of preliminary studies, is Ingres's Mona Lisa. It's a wonderful blend of intelligibility and mysteriousness. On one hand it is an intensely material painting: the care Ingres took with every last detail of her costume and massive jewelry--the cascading rose-embroidered fabric, the tassels on the bodice--almost defies belief. On the other it harks back in time. Her pose is taken from that of the goddess of Arcadia in an antique mural from Herculaneum that Ingres saw in Naples; whence her bizarre hand, that pampered starfish of flesh. Then there...
Thanks to Andrea, the scholars of the convent decide to invent a story about a gathering of history's greatest minds in New Orleans. The unfolding of their story effects the fabric of reality, and the great minds descend on Louisiana, sent there by heaven to pass judgment on the world in what is, perhaps, the novel's weakest link...
...curtain rose on a large white piece of fabric covering the entire stage and lifted to various heights at different places by cables. Throughout the piece, cables were raised and lowered, and the dancers moved under the fabric. The stage was lit with bright orange light, and the dancers costumed in nude colored unitards, grass skirts, body paint, headbands and feathers. The atmosphere and movement was very tribal, primitive, fast paced and sexual. Despite the primitive appearance, the choreography still has its roots in classical ballet, which resulted in a unique effect...