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...Strokes, with members all between ages 20 and 22, hopes to conquer its homeland. The band just released its first full-length CD, Is This It (RCA), a scrappy, old-school rock album with yowling vocals, jangling guitars and cool, carefree melodies that stay with you like tattoos. The New York City quintet--singer Julian Casablancas, bassist Nikolai Fraiture, guitarists Nick Valensi and Albert Hammond Jr. and drummer Fabrizio Moretti--has started drawing queries from journalists from as far away as Brazil, as well as advance raves from the U.S. press. "We try not to pay too much attention...
...make up human DNA, the harder task may be to figure out what they mean. Trying to determine what's going on in a particular cell--which contains the entire complement of 30,000 or so genes but uses only a small fraction of them--is like watching a full-length movie a few pixels at a time...
...production so bizarre that it inspired a fascinating documentary (Fax Barh's 1991 Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker's Apocalypse) and a full-length study (Peter Cowie's new The Apocalypse Now Book), the quality of the resulting film could be irrelevant. But despite Coppola's protestation, Apocalypse Now is a movie--the most ambitious, artful attempt to capture on film the sundering trauma of American soldiers in Southeast Asia. Like any movie, it can be assembled into any shape, any length, that its powerful auteur deems suitable. So last year Coppola went back into the jungle of his Vietnam...
...Despite the crashing failure in 1958 of his first full-length play The Birthday Party (it was pulled out of a London theater after just four performances, following catastrophic reviews), Harold Pinter has risen to become perhaps Britain's most revered contemporary writer. That reputation started to build with his second full-length play, The Caretaker, an instant hit that ran for 444 performances and was quickly followed by international productions. Certainly he has attained the rare distinction of having merited an adjective in the Oxford English Dictionary - "Pinteresque: ... pertaining to, or characteristic of ... Harold Pinter, or his works...
...First full-length work, The Birthday Party, is produced in London and closes after four performances. Critics are caustic, apart from the Sunday Times' Harold Hobson, who hails Pinter as a brilliant new writer...