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...turn of the century, the set is defined by extremely modern elements. The most obvious of these is the line of red lights that frames the entire stage, including much of the top, as if to trap the characters within the confines of the set. Corrugated, graffitied iron extends beyond the lights. Within the lit frame, however, the décor is not incompatible with the early 1900s. The red lights are not the only delineating separating feature of the set, which was also designed by Lupa. A slightly reflective screen divides the living room foreground from the dining room...
When people talk about “coming together” over the holiday season, few probably envision young hipsters and graying couples attending indie concerts with one another. Both groups, and several generations in between, packed Boston’s Avalon last Wednesday to see Calexico and Iron & Wine, for nearly four hours of music as diverse as its audience.The demographic disparity within the crowd was highlighted by their diverse reaction to opener Tom Fite’s strange electro-folk-punk-hip-hop stylings: “awesome” to the college student on my left...
...start a textile factory, run a bank and so on. We had traders, not manufacturers. Why did we [the government] start a shipping line? Because we didn't have a Y.K. Pao or a C.Y. Tung as in Hong Kong. The same with Singapore Airlines, and so with an iron and steel mill. How do we get out of these companies now? To get out, we've got to find a buyer who can provide the management to take over. We produced the bright officers who are good at numbers and who learned on the job. They did a great...
...it’s a free pass into all sorts of nonsense that doesn’t add up.”Blithely risking blasphemy, she describes the solemn scene where her character sacrifices anthropomorphic messiah Aslan as “a full-on rock concert of the Iron Maiden variety.”And Swinton is even less reverent when she talks about her reasons for taking the role. Mostly, she says, she was hoping to help secure funding for other projects she’s planning, like a film based on the life of icy, heroin-addled German...
...Europeans recognized that truth as Soviet-backed regimes grabbed power across Eastern Europe. The subsequent struggle between capitalism and communism is the leitmotif of postwar Europe until 1989, and Judt takes some choice shots at Western intellectuals enamored by the experiment in "real existing Socialism" playing out inside the Iron Curtain. "I come from a country where no one laughs any more, where no one sings," French poet Paul Eluard told an audience in Bucharest in 1948. "But you have discovered the sunshine of happiness." At the time, an estimated 1 million Romanians were imprisoned in dire conditions or engaged...