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...that dense, grand and mysterious painting, the intensity of light is evoked, with all the courage of paradox, with a predominant velvety black. The ambiguous forms -- Are the green curved objects in the left foreground melons, as some think, or the backsides of Muslims praying to Mecca? -- combine in a pictorial structure of wonderful explicitness and rigor. One sees in the work painters who would not be born for another 20 or 30 years: Frank Stella, Sean Scully. Clearly, though Matisse left Morocco, Morocco never left...
Should the truth-in-packaging principle that protects consumers in stores apply to rock concerts too? New Jersey assemblymen Neil Cohen and Joseph Mecca think so. They have introduced a bill that would require promoters to inform fans when an artist gyrates to canned music instead of real singing. Lip syncing has become routine at concerts by such big names as Milli Vanilli, New Kids on the Block and Janet Jackson...
...contrast, Craig V. Hickman sparkles as Richie. His dancing is indubitably the best in the troupe, and he sings wonderfully. His performance in "Goodbye Twelve" is a definite high point in the production. And though less featured, Mecca Nelson's dancing and presence as Judy rival Hickman's intensity...
...tourists are Swiss, with the remainder divided among Germans, Belgians, French and other Europeans. For Japanese and American travelers, the sultanate still awaits discovery -- a consequence of lack of promotion, long-distance travel and substantial expense. The preponderance of Swiss largely reflects the promotion of Oman as a holiday mecca by Kuoni Travel, a Zurich-based agency that flies more than 100 tourists each winter week to Muscat via Balair charter...
...their elders scowl at a visiting photographer. At an elegant medieval-era mosque just outside town, young construction volunteers stop for a farewell word from mullah Kasemi Bey after a Saturday morning of restoration work. Says Kasemi Bey: "The number of believers is growing. Everybody wants to go to Mecca...