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...vast holdings of the Arabs? The Arabs have 21 countries; Islam rules in 40. Why then accuse the Jews of having too much when the Arabs consider all they have is still too little? Why does their obsession with the tiny Jewish enclave prevent them from attending to the manifold problems of their own societies...
...wind my way through theories about the manifold forms of heaven and earth, angels and demons, right and wrong, I'm melding the sacred and the secular. A mechanical medium seems inherently irreligious. But through it, I can latch onto - or into - some version of what the Hopi call "the holy something." Religion is interactive by nature. A message is conveyed to a believer, revealed, perhaps, by a Supreme Being, or manifest in one's surroundings, where spirits inhabit the trees, the rocks, the winds. The believer's life, fundamentally, becomes the response. This jibes rather nicely with the form...
...accompanying process of seeking out an engineer. The engineer is responsible for getting the sounds you produce onto a recorded medium in the most effective (which, depending on the genre of music, could mean either "beautiful" or "extremely grating") way possible. The responses from potential engineers were manifold: our questions brought on statements such as, "Dude, you tell me what kind of thing you all want to do, and my job is to... do it" to the more concise "We're going to make a record! A damn good record! 'Cos my [expletive] sounds [expletive] good...
...benefits of a unified theater community are manifold and readily evident. Rather than a feeling of great competition between shows, there's a prevailing sense of sharing and fairness. Rather than operating in isolation, actors and directors who might never otherwise speak to one another can exchange ideas and discuss future plans. Whereas publications, singing groups or even chamber ensembles can develop rivalries that prohibit any kind of collective action, the theater community has no problem joining together for Common Casting, turning what could be a drawn-out and maddening process of endless auditions scattered throughout the year into...
...Pastiche replaces parody. In parody, it is clear what is being laughed at. In pastiche, the target is manifold or uncertain...