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...morphine. John outdid them both. Peters theorizes that the Great Profile was "androgynous . . . To mask his vulnerability, he adopted a supermasculine pose: hard-drinking, profane, whoring, cynical. He lived in terror of being unmasked." Yet drunk or hung over -- which was most of the time -- John became a matinee idol, a superb comedian and the most celebrated Hamlet...
...indisputably at the top of her profession. The problem is that no one, including the Manhattan-based choreographer-directo r herself, can easily describe what that profession is. "If I knew what I was doing, I wouldn't do it," says the avant-garde artist, paraphrasing her idol Samuel Beckett. Her productions are always an evocative blend of dance, music, words and light, but to her latest piece, Endangered Species, she brings something + entirely new: live animals, including Flora, a baby elephant, and Clarke's own horse, Mr. Grey. She maintains that they're being used as "sentient creatures" rather...
...been Marsalis' burning mission throughout his career. On talk shows, in interviews, at schoolroom seminars, he tirelessly proclaims the "majesty" of the jazz tradition and inveighs against those who, in his view, are selling it out to the forces of "commercialism." His particular bete noire has been his early idol Miles Davis, whom Marsalis once accused of being "corrupted" by his move into fusion, sparking a bitter public feud between...
...academic community was abuzz this summer with talk of an astonishing find by a Harvard archaeologist. Lawrence E. Stager '65, Dorot Professor of the Archaeology of Israel, unearthed an ancient Canaanite "golden calf" in Israel, the only idol of its kind ever found. Scientists hailed the calf--which may date back to 1500 B.C.--as a vital piece of evidence about the development of ancient religions...
...academic community was abuzz this summer with talk of an astonishing find by a Harvard archaeologist. Lawrence E. Stager '65, Dorot Professor of the Archaeology of Israel, unearthed an ancient Canaanite "golden calf" in Israel, the only idol of its kind ever found. Scientists hailed the calf--which may date back to 1500 B.C.--as a vital piece of evidence about the development of ancient religions...