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Metheny's melodic side is also in evidence throughout his haunting score for the film version of Jane Hamilton's novel A Map of the World (Warner Bros.). Its spacious, Coplandesque lyricism is clearly the work of a composer who grew up on the prairie's edge (he comes from Lee's Summit, a suburb of Kansas City). "The geography of Missouri has had an incredibly strong aesthetic impact on me," he says. "You see everything from a distance. You look out and there's a tree, and 25 miles beyond it there's a pond. And whenever...
...Howard Korder's extraordinary new play, The Hollow Lands, leaves most of the romance behind. The journey is populated by criminals and charlatans and half-crazed messiahs; there are coldblooded shootings that go unpunished, families separated without even a pause for goodbye, dreams that always seem just off the map. "I have played my life out," says Newman near the end. "In pursuit of dust." Go west, young man, the play seems to say; you're doomed...
...Manifest Destiny," it implies, was not a great quest or a great crime but a kind of communal neurosis, a manic need to chart the uncharted--an endeavor people in the play are constantly, fuzzily describing as "freedom." Yet those great white spaces of terra incognita on the map are being filled in faster than the maps can be redrawn, and the result is something like a mass nervous breakdown...
...MEMORABLE MOMENT] Removal of field-size Caribbean map causes 11-min. game delay...
Venter's rivals have raised questions about how complete and accurate the finished maps will be. Venter has acknowledged that Celera's will contain some gaps, especially in the so-called repeats--long stretches of DNA with virtually identical sequences. Genome Project scientists once argued that because they have an easier time sequencing the repeats, their finished map would be more complete and error-free. They have since discovered that many regions throughout the chromosomes are unreadable even with their technology, and they are now forced to acknowledge that their product will have large gaps as well...