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...Pavilion is one of the greatest masterpieces of all time [Nov. 5]. What a curiously mistaken notion that "witnesses to such a grandiose relic should worry less about falling asleep and more about slipping into a coma." I was lucky enough to see Chen Shi-Zheng's full 19-hour production and Pai Hsien-Yung's nine-hour production of the opera. Each time, when the performance ended, I wanted it to start all over again. Such is the power, beauty and fascination of Kunqu opera, even to a Westerner. The consummate skill required of the performers transcends time...
...listen to Never Mind the Bollocks, Here's the Sex Pistols and I loved it," he says. Punk soon proliferated as rapidly as cassette duplicates of the albums could be made, and Onie and his friends would meet nightly at Blok M - beside Jakarta's main 24-hour bus terminal - to swap bootlegs of albums by the likes of American punk rockers the Casualties and Scottish four-piece the Exploited...
...hours in the arena is a strenuous workout. The mightily authentic shields, tridents and helmets weigh a daunting 3 kg all together, and I retired limp-wristed after only a fleeting bout in full apparel. Theo, made of sterner stuff, held his own in some simulated savagery that required throwing tridents javelin-style. I was happy to console myself with dinner at the hotel's rooftop, three-Michelin-star La Pergola restaurant, with views of the Colosseum. A two-hour course costs $580 for up to eight people (aged 12 and up) and will run throughout the Christmas school holidays...
...people sitting at lunch and disagreeing with each other," quips Marc Levy, one of France's best-selling novelists. (His Et si c'Etait Vrai... , published in English as If Only It Were True, became the 2005 Hollywood film Just Like Heaven starring Reese Witherspoon and Mark Ruffalo.) "An hour and a half later, they are sitting at dinner, and some are agreeing while others are disagreeing." France today can make slick, highly commercial movies - Amélie, Brotherhood of the Wolf - but for many foreigners the taint of talkiness lingers...
...back-and-forth, which finally wakes up the crowd. By the time Obama moves on to immigration ("These are people who are trying to make a living. I understand they broke the law. But let me tell you something: if the minimum wage in Canada was $100 an hour ..."), he is, to steal a phrase, fired up. And the crowd, which cheers so loudly that he doesn't need to finish the sentence, is won over. The passionate response has answered their electability questions. As for the plus? On her way out of the event, even Svoboda offers a positive...