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...Hong Kong import directed by Michael Mak, purports to be an adaptation of a classic Ming Dynasty novel known as The Carnal Prayer Mat. Being unfamiliar with the novel, this reviewer is in no position to judge the faithfulness of Mak to his source. However, it would appear that the film makers are using the novel simply to lend respectability to soft-core porn...
LITTLE MORE THAN A DECADE ago, opera in the U.S. was regarded by many as an outdated European cultural import that held little relevance for contemporary Americans. Beset by high production costs, disastrous deficits, a declining talent pool and a static, aging repertory, American opera companies seemed to be the dinosaurs of arts organizations. In the past few years, however, a string of important and popular new works by composers as disparate as John Corigliano, Philip Glass and William Bolcom has helped improve opera's artistic fortunes. At the same time, audacious native-born stage directors like Peter Sellars...
...issues that affect the University can vary from the matters of national fiscal policies to the minutiae of research policy or even import...
...professor needed to import his pianos, which was not a problem. But the ivory keys, banned according to import regulations, were a different story...
Enter Harvard's Washington based lobbyist Nan Nixon. She worked feverishly to find a way around the import rules. Ultimately, however, the professor's keys stayed behind in Germany...