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These shows sometimes draw the line. Hard Copy was offered pictures of River Phoenix in his casket but turned them down. Among the other offers Hard Copy has passed on: $50,000 for an interview with Charles Manson...
Since the premiere in 1980 of Philip Glass's Satyagraha, which depicted the origins of Gandhi's nonviolent pacifism, operas have taken on such subjects as the thawing of the cold war (John Adams' Nixon in China), a horrifying mass murder (John Moran's The Manson Family) and the life and times of a fiery black radical (Anthony Davis' X). Throw in William Bolcom's 1992 McTeague, a setting of Frank Norris' wrenching turn-of-the-century novel, and Steve Reich's The Cave, a challenging examination of the roots of the Arab-Israeli conflict that gets its American premiere...
...Amherst, they spend a night, maybe two, to wait in line to get tickets to see a game in the Massachusetts Cage. The faces are painted, the shirts are all the same color (white or red for the team colors), and the fanatics are crazy. Not Charles Manson crazy, but 20-year-old, after-exams crazy. They are having...
...Last fall, for example, they went to a conference in Ontario at the site of the 1.8 billion-year-old Sudbury Crater, which is 300 km (188 miles) wide. From there, they flew to Iowa City, Iowa, where Gene examined core samples from the nearby Manson Crater, 35 km (22 miles) across and about 65 million years old and perhaps made by a chunk of the comet that killed the dinosaurs. Then, after a weekend back in Flagstaff, the Shoemakers departed for their annual one-month field trip in the Australian Outback, where the ancient and stable land surface, peppered...
Cohen is not one of those artists he characterizes in the title track as "lousy little poets/ Coming round/ Trying to sound like Charlie Manson." He knows how to be vulnerable as well as play at it. His love songs twist the heart around like fingers knotting a string. The gloomy ironies of political caution, like Democracy, are applied with a sense of urgency but salved by some surefooted wit ("I'm sentimental, if you know what I mean:/ I love the country but I can't stand the scene") that neatly sidesteps sermonizing...