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...municipal life dying of cars. If this were all, the moral would be simple: avoid Bangkok. Yet cars there, and across Europe and especially in the U.S., are efficient carbon generators. And carbon dioxide is the main ingredient in the greenhouse shield that is warming the globe and adding furious energy to epochal storms and floods...
...major despairing theme of conservative political commentary. (Or, "Values, shmalues," as America's leading value peddler, William Bennett, summarized the apparent new culture consensus to the New York Times recently.) Social conservatives used to be smug populists who tarred their critics as out-of-touch elitists. Now they shoot furious thunderbolts at the formerly all-wise American people. Although the dismay of the sanctimony set is enjoyable to watch, their despair may be somewhat misplaced...
...CLOUDSPLITTER Was John Brown, the antislavery revolutionary who led the famous 1859 raid at Harpers Ferry, W. Va., a visionary or a madman? Russell Banks frames this question in fictional form, a furious, sprawling drama narrated by Brown's real-life son Owen. The result is a historical novel that is not simply a period piece or a pedantic tract but an imaginative leap...
...designed by Riccardo Hernandez, involves oppressive metallic walls which are corrugated effectively to reflect and swallow light, creating both ethereal and demonic auras. The variations in lighting and musical interludes flow harmoniously from scene to scene, from fits of passion to furious rage. In addition, Catherine Zuber's intricately patterned kimonos and rustic leather vests emphasize the romantic undertones of the play; the shapes and aesthetics of the costumes are carefully integrated into the profile of each character and with the shimmering metallic backdrop give the stage a bizarre, beautiful aura...
...people filling the Centrum. Phish is more raw in the late nineties than ever before, and their jams tend to be faster and more rock-based than in the past. However, they have retained the ability to direct the mood of the audience. From the first furious moment of guitar virtuosity by Anastasio to the final moments before intermission, when he introduced an "old friend from Vermont," the band seemed connected with each other and with the audience...