Word: ghosting
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Writers, spurred by Coe, paid little attention to TV's restrictions. They'd have characters flash back from old age to youth and back again (requiring split-second makeup applications) or dream up odd location scenes. Coe's own script, This Time Next Year, called for the ghost of Ulysses S. Grant to materialize at Grant's Tomb. The actor playing Grant was to jump into an NBC limo and get uptown in time for the "remote." But there was no limo. So the actor hailed a cab and, in full Grant regalia, ordered, "Take me to Grant's Tomb...
...first broad-based success came with his Ghost Opera, written for the Kronos Quartet in 1994 (and newly available on a Nonesuch CD), in which a Bach prelude, a Chinese folk song, the chanting of monks and the words of Shakespeare are woven into a haunting musical tapestry. Since then Tan has completed his first Hollywood assignment (a hard-edged, jazz-tinged score for Denzel Washington's next movie, Fallen, due later this year) and signed an exclusive recording contract with Sony Classical. Slated for release in October is Marco Polo: An Opera Within an Opera, a work whose...
...arrived at, lovers do not see each other more clearly and dearly. Paul and Anita, a shakily married couple, continue to split after wreckage tears off part of their house. The estranged former husband of Trixie, an old woman, dies in the crash, and she imagines that his ghost visits her; but the hallucination is incidental to what is important in her life: her gradual slide toward senility. Lars, a decent young fellow, and Christine, his friend who needs a kidney transplant, do not fall in love...
...bold sky is America's Geography of Conspiracy. If Disney were to create a theme park celebrating American paranoia (Suspicionland U.S.A.), it might want to base the design on central Nevada. Tumbleweed stretches of empty highway roller-coaster over mountain ranges and down into salt flats, past ghost towns, federal prisons and legal brothels surrounded by barbed wire. In the sky, fighter-bombers execute mock dogfights and shoot laser-guided munitions at dummy air bases built from bales of hay. Gold mines--some old and haunted, some new and bustling--dominate corroded mountainsides, and the land in between is sagebrush...
Lohr, 43, a San Franciscan with blond hair and a soft, open manner, moved to Crested Butte from New Hampshire in 1986, when she became director of the Rocky Mountain Biological Laboratory, a high-altitude field station based in the ghost town of Gothic. The federal grazing land around the lab was leased by a "range pool" that included Trampe, now 50, who left college and started ranching in 1967 after his father dropped dead in the field. Trampe's elders in the range pool couldn't fathom the lab's scientists. "To a rancher, it's strange...