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...between “banned books” lists and “great books” courses. Before Allen Ginsberg’s Howl, there is James Joyce’s Ulysses. Well before either come Aristophanes’ Lysistrata, Geoffrey Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales, and Giovanni Boccaccio’s Decameron, all of which were banned in the United States under the Comstock Law of 1873, prohibiting the sale of “lewd,” “indecent,” “filthy,” or “obscene?...
...their own business virtually without oversight. "He is still the head of the church," said a priest based in Rome. "But he's more of a figurehead. He's not making the day-to-day decisions anymore." Insiders say the Pope, for example, increasingly rubber-stamps the recommendations of Giovanni Battista Cardinal Re, head of the Congregation for Bishops, who submits names for each new bishop to be appointed...
Mozart’s Prelude to Don Giovanni, Britten’s Soirées Musicales, Stephenson’s The Legend of Sleepy Hollow, Ives’ The Unanswered Question, Haydn’s Finale from Symphony No. 89 in F Major and PDQ Bach’s Eine Kleine Nichtmusik are just some of the offerings in this fully filled program. Isaiah Jackson conducts. There will also be a free pre-show half-hour of chamber music at 2 p.m. and a post-concert classical music singles club wine & cheese reception, for a minimal fee and with limited...
Lucky for him, a friend of his brother's wife worked for producer Jon Avnet (Risky Business, Fried Green Tomatoes). Avnet liked the six minutes of robots so much he put up his own seed money and persuaded Law, Paltrow, Angelina Jolie and Giovanni Ribisi to sign up for a vintage-looking film about a pilot and a tagalong reporter saving the world from an evil genius. "It's a rare chance we get to do something completely original artistically," says Jolie. "People use blue screen to cheat or enhance a little, but he had a film in his head...
...when the fog had lifted, two helicopters swooped in over the mountainside and a phalanx of police cars, jeeps and armed agents charged up. Spera, then 60, was captured at gunpoint and hauled away to serve multiple life sentences for the 1992 car-bomb executions of anti-Mafia magistrates Giovanni Falcone and Paolo Borsellino. The property's owner, Nicola La Barbera, and Spera's doctor, Vincenzo Di Noto, were also arrested, and both later served time for Mafia association. But there was no sign of Provenzano. Authorities may never get that close to him again. A turncoat Mob informant later...