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...Staging the obscure poem might seem an unusual career choice for producer and director Wilson, a native of Texas who has long been pre-eminent in the highbrow world of experimental theater. His production of Philip Glass's Einstein on the Beach, presented at New York City's Metropolitan Opera in 1976, was a breakthrough for avant-garde theater in the U.S. Since then he has become best known for his austere, abstract interpretations of the classics, from Shakespeare to Wagner...
...Vietnam Veterans Against the War as much as did the rumor that President Nixon had said that only 30% of their number were really Vietnam veterans. Though the White House was quick to deny any such statement, the angry veterans collected proof of service ... One vet offered his glass eye as testimony ... [The week] ended with some 700 of the veterans pausing ... in front of the Capitol and hurling at it medals won in Vietnam. Some dedicated the medals to their dead friends, some to the Vietnamese who have been killed in the war. One said quietly: 'I just want...
...twentieth century. This documentary shows the making of war through his eyes, from the Cuban Missile Crisis through the Vietnam War. The documentary, directed by genre master Errol Morris (Fast, Cheap and Out of Control) utilizes frank White House tapes, startlingly surreal images, and an extraordinary Philip Glass score to engross an audience that may otherwise have little interest in the subject matter. Morris never compromises his vision of McNamara as a man whose regret has opened floodgates of wisdom (upon hearing one of the admonitions apparently directed at the current administration, an audience member actually began clapping...
...gruesome physiology of dehydration) and were eventually taken as slaves by the Bou Sbaa, a tribe of nomadic Arabs who scratched out a perilous living in the Sahara, trading and feuding and drinking surprising amounts of camel urine. Seen through Riley's eyes, the Sahara is a nightmare looking-glass world, where camels are sacred and men wash their faces with sand. It couldn't have been more alien if he had been captured by Klingons, but Riley manages to form a kind of friendship with one of his captors, a charismatic merchant named Sidi Hamet who helps him survive...
...billion Number of birds killed by flying into glass windows in the U.S. each year...