Word: interpretative
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...often on MTV and VH1, waltzes the listener into Amos' haunting world. But what a sweet seduction it is. "How many fates turn around in the overtime?" Amos asks. "Ballerinas that have fins that you'll never find?" Most Tori devotees have spent enough time with her albums to interpret her Cheshire Cat-esque questions; and even if one hasn't, simply beginning to ponder them against the sweeping piano background is nothing short of enrapturing...
...Assaf, who choreographs musical comedies and rock videos. But her inexperience turned out to be a blessing. While many directors now treat 19th century opera as an opportunity to stuff unsuspecting audiences full of identity politics (the oppression of Gypsy women under late capitalism, say), Assaf was content to interpret the world's most popular opera as a straightforward tale of love and death. "It's a story, it's music, it's movement," she says with a shrug...
...twisting could be coming. "We believe the U.S. should not discuss the three nos with Beijing," says Chen Chien-jen, director-general of the Government Information Office in Taipei. Adds Vice Foreign Minister David Lee: "We don't want this written down because we don't want Beijing to interpret what independence means...
...middle class segment of Generation X. The struggles of these interviewees go deeper than political or cultural disaffection. Their struggle is one to survive. Fine and Weis document it with language that is less dense than the typical sociological study. As a result, The Unknown City is easy to interpret. But not easy to read. There is a flavor of dejection and hopelessness that leaves a bitter aftertaste, rendering some of the stories painful to get through. While the heavy reliance on interviews give The Unknown City a realistic outlook, it presents astonishing racial and sexist stereotypes in the process...
Stuck between two cultures, el-Gaili presents the trappings of both home and adopted home with ease. Perennially clad in oxford shirts and khakis, he manages to simultaneously exude American preppiness and interpret his current home at a polite distance. Meanwhile, his Currier House single is full of Islamic and Sudanese artifacts from home and family. He pauses briefly to point at cane with an emblem of an eagle, the Sudanese national symbol...