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...Grace Wing had always been ambitious. A graduate student in film, she had already co-founded a small New York City theater company when she learned, on the eve of her 30th birthday in July 2001, that she had terminal colon cancer. Knowing she would never complete a full-length film, Wing decided to use her remaining time and energy to compose an opera--not exactly a step down in ambition. Although her health deteriorated quickly, she never ceased working, composing on a laptop in her hospital bed. "Creating was her love," says her father Bill Wing, "and I think...
...diverse and sometimes quirky style, from the drab Auxiliary Territorial Service uniform she donned during World War II to the glamorous black velvet evening gown she wore to The Battle of the River Plate opening in 1956, where she met Monroe. Also in the exhibition is the full-length black lace dress with matching veil the Queen wore when she met Pope John XXIII at the Vatican in 1961. Perhaps an exhibit will one day feature what the Queen wore to Prince Charles and Camilla Parker Bowles' wedding...
...their hair grow longer, a social trend so disturbing to Kim?who is instantly recognizable for his gravity-defying bouffant?that he is trying to eradicate it at its roots. The Dear Leader recently decreed that extravagant male locks, defined in the state media as exceeding 5 cm in length, are a bourgeois affectation that could undermine socialism. In a televised campaign called "Let's Trim Our Hair According to the Socialist Lifestyle," citizens are told that long hair breeds body odor and deprives the brain of oxygen. The official recommended style is now a 1.5-cm brush cut called...
...Soldiering Life,” and “The Gymnast, High Above the Ground” all quickly prove that this isn’t a songwriter obsessed with any trite expression of young love. The band is set to drop their third full-length album, Picaresque, in March 2005, and all previewing copies have left excited reviewers in their wake: this band is on the rise. Set-lists from past shows have shown that Meloy is equally dipping into the band’s catalog as with the new collection of Mozzer tracks, including the EP?...
Less overtly political and frenetic than Bordman and nowhere near as sludgy or mystical as the Body, Tiny Hawks reaches the sort of happy medium between political hardcore and existential emo as Sinaloa’s Fathers and Sons. Song lengths vary from the punk rock standard of around 2 or 3 minutes to the ridiculously short—three of the songs are 40 seconds or shorter, two of which cram just as many lyrics as any of the other songs, while the last, “You got the right,” is listed in the lyrics...