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...almost certain that it's a test from God and that God is not going give you more than you can bear," he says. "But it's getting pretty heavy." He takes solace in the simple things. "Each time when it seems to be getting unbearable, something happens to lift the weight off," he says. "We've had people tell us they've had dreams in which Matt is O.K., and it's weird, but that really helps...
Slowly drop pants and boxers and/or lift skirt(s). A ripped skirt or shirt might be hot in the heat of the moment, but what will the security guards think...
...wake of the 60th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz, Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon remarked, “The sad and terrible conclusion is that no once cared that Jews were being killed. At the time of the most terrible test, friends and benefactors didn’t lift a finger This is the Jewish lesson of the Holocaust.” After a half-millennium during which the world has created, exacerbated and ignored the global plight of black people, it is time for us to draw a similar lesson. During our most terrible tests—Rwanda...
...floor. Instead, a void, out of which some ethereal miracles materialize. Many of them take place on two huge surfaces: a 1,250-sq.-ft., 175-ton slab (known as the sand-cliff deck) and a smaller one (the 900-sq.-ft., 40-ton tatami deck) that can simultaneously lift, rotate and tilt. Thus the actors must perform many of their maneuvers while the earth is literally moving under their feet. (If they fall off, there's a 60-ft. drop out of sight and onto an airbag.) Other scenes occur in midair, with the actors on wires or clinging...
...highest common denominator, Cirque makes nearly every other form of entertainment seem timid, sullen, earthbound. K flies at its own giddy altitude and takes you along for the ride. If you catch the import of every gesture and plot point, fine. If not, you can still feel the lift and thrust, the vertiginous thrill. Either way, it's quite a trip, one that turns an evening at the theater into an exalting hallucination. K induces rapture. --With reporting by Steven Frank/ Las Vegas