Word: improvisationism
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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While the political arrangements worked out by former President Jimmy Carter seemed to be running on schedule, the more complicated task of bringing calm to Haiti has required improvisation. The original agreement, which envisioned using the Haitian security forces to continue to police the country under the aegis of the...
Bill Clinton at war has the disquieting countenance of Bill Clinton at peace: few principles seem inviolate; indiscipline and incoherence are the norm; careful planning falls to last-minute improvisation; steadfastness is only a tactic. At home that is not so remarkable. Political reality routinely demands compromise. And to be...
Perhaps an inkling of the bizarre waters ahead comes from the titles of the movements in the Suites. Named like conventional dance movements, we have waltzes, polkas, a march and even a foxtrot. Yes, one could actually dance to this music. As with much of "classical jazz" composed until the...
As things work out in this comfortably intricate comedy by Ang Lee (who directed last year's The Wedding Banquet), their father, despite his obsession with food, does better than any of them romantically. This is perhaps because cooking at his level has taught him to blend the practical, paradoxical...
Tenors are notorious for their vanity, and it has been assumed that these three must be rivalrous. But their insistence that they are in fact good colleagues has the ring of truth to it. Domingo, 53, and Pavarotti, 58, especially, have huge careers, more work than they can possibly handle...