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...people close to them to re-evaluate the purpose of their lives. Sebastian, we soon learn, isn't the small-town boy made good that everyone takes him for; in fact, he's lonely and deeply in debt. As Sebastian searches for a way to change his life, Kip Dixon (Jed Silverstein), Bernadette's husband, undergoes a similar crisis: he decides to quit his job as a dentist to seek a life as an artist, feeling that he has undergone a spiritual rebirth...
Since a young evangelist named Kip McKean founded the Boston Church of Christ (BCC) in 1979, the church's membership has increased rapidly internationally and throughout all 50 states, according to church members and an article appearing in Time magazine...
...Kip Hanrahan, in the liner notes to this set, writes that there "are few other cases in modern music of a musician inheriting a musical tradition [tango] growing so moribund in its structure and mannerisms, and growing so stiff in its political implications and social function, who so singlehandedly transformed it into a breathing, complex, sensual and powerful music." Even such generous praise is understated; Piazzolla's impact and importance reach far beyond his work in and influence on tango, moving towards a redefinition of the depths of the emotion that can be reached through music...
...will work hard to submerge it. "They are afraid of themselves," she says, "so they are going to control themselves." If the country is to retain the confidence of overseas investors -- mainly American -- who provide the capital essential for growth, it must demonstrate its ability to maintain stability. L. Kip Smith, president of the American Chamber of Commerce of Mexico, says that will happen because of "the foundation that has been built, the spirit of the people, the desire for progress." More concretely, David West, a U.S. consultant, says, "The market is still here. The labor pool is still here...
...stands for many things that are lost and wounded. And in the dying light of Empire, Ondaatje shows us the end of one world and the birth of another -- deracinated, post-national -- where people must be mapmakers in a different kind of desert. Kipling has been eclipsed by Kip. Occasionally, the author's design becomes almost too insistent, finding in Hiroshima and Nagasaki not only the explosion of the whole world of nation-states, but also the final cruelty of the West upon the East. By then, however, he has thoroughly enveloped the reader in as rare and spellbinding...