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...Mobilizing an army of artisans, from comic-strip illustrators to traditional wayang puppet makers, the show "Embedded with Punkasila" both tests the limits of Indonesian free speech and challenges Australian notions that its neighbor is a hotbed of Islamic fundamentalism. With fun and flair, Kesminas shows that much is permissible. "It's the perfect time," he says, "and in all honesty, five years ago you'd probably be put in jail for doing this." The artist nearly was, though not in Indonesia. While lugging back one of his machine-gun guitars from Yogyakarta last year, Kesminas was detained for five...
...series of excerpts from “Paquita.” Made up of two group numbers, nine solo variations, and three pas de trios, “Paquita” was a challenging choice—both for its technical difficulty and requisite Spanish flair...
...Inevitably, the Italians did their Thermopylae epic. It was called The 300 Spartans, starred Richard Egan as Leonidas and was told with more finesse than 300, though without quite the digital flair. It was no masterpiece either...
...many, Obama’s charm will be enough. We are so starved for political energy that we will gladly take Obama even if his flair never coalesces into a realistic platform. However, it would be far shrewder for us to acknowledge our own desperation for a likable candidate, hold out for just a bit longer, and demand that Obama turn his campaign into more than just eye and ear candy. He may indeed be a tremendous candidate, the first in years to be able to fuse the ability to persuade with the resolve to take difficult, potentially unpopular stances...
Noorzai has a flair for the dramatic gesture. In January 2002, to convince the Americans that he wanted to work with them and demonstrate not only his worth but his influence over his tribe, he delivered 15 trucks loaded with weaponry, including about 400 antiaircraft missiles, that the Taliban had concealed in his tribal villages. The gesture apparently had the desired effect. Over the next few months, Noorzai said he met with U.S. military and intelligence officers five times. The purpose, he says: "To make the situation in Afghanistan stable and also to help the Americans negotiate with the moderate...