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...Eisner brought an absolutely revolutionary dimension to the graphic novel, which was to make it an instrument of memory," says Pasamonik. Finally, with a nod toward Edmond-Fran?ois Calvo's 1944 La B?te est Morte (The Beast is Dead) - which uses animals to tell the story of World War II - Art Spiegelman brought the graphic novel worldwide recognition by winning a Pulitzer prize in 1992 for his Holocaust saga, Maus. Eisner and Spiegelman's heirs now litter the globe, from Frenchman Joann Sfar (The Rabbi's Cat) to Iranian Marjane Satrapi (Persepolis). "From Superman to the Rabbi's Cat" pays...
...first, MTV Arabia has to find the right mix of old and new. On a recent afternoon, producers reviewed a commercial featuring a traditional Arabic music ensemble, with one musician on the lutelike oud. Little by little, the oud player went wild and trashed his instrument, Jimi Hendrix-style. The meeting erupted. "You don't just break an oud," said a producer. Another chimed in, "We don't want it to be seen that MTV is coming from America and breaking your oud." An alternate ending is in the works...
...provisions. "We certainly hope that this might reduce somewhat the appetite of governments to regulate," says Large. Meanwhile in the U.S., a government-sponsored industry group, the President's Working Group on Financial Markets, is also preparing a set of voluntary hedge-fund guidelines. "Regulation can be a blunt instrument," says Russell Read, chief investment officer for the California Public Employees' Retirement System (CalPERS), a $240 billion California pension fund that invests in hedge funds. "We think investors and hedge-fund managers themselves will have the best and hopefully the highest impact" in improving the industry's practices, says Read...
...beat from the second movement reappeared and escalated into a triumphant sound in the combined third and fourth movements, “Allegro.” The entire orchestra united into one common, uplifting sound that appropriately led into a grand and united finale. The battle between the instruments that was present in the first movement had beautifully melted away. Yannatos, filled with the energy of the music, was an instrument himself. Twitching, twisting, and spinning his arms to the flow of Beethoven’s masterpiece, he was truly amazing to watch. The orchestra, precisely matching each...
...three zithers plus percussion,” a zither ensemble whose members hail from Germany, Alaska, Taiwan, and Japan. IIIZ+ performed a free concert on Wednesday, Oct. 17 in the Tsai Auditorium at the Center for Government and International Studies.The zither is a large stringed instrument used in East Asian music; with or without frets, it is something like a cross between a lap guitar and a harp. IIIZ+ combines zithers from China, Japan, and Korea, along with a changgu, a type of Korean drum. The zithers featured in Wednesday’s show were about five feet long...