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...presenting them as archetypes instead of real people. How could a chapter entitled “The Scholar” capture the life of a man by reducing him to one label and all of its connotations? But after reading the chapter, the wisdom of Barrett’s minimalist chapter headings becomes clear.By introducing Khaled Abou El Fadl to the world as “The Scholar,” Barrett strives to illuminate the role of the scholarly Muslim in American society. The chapter does not even begin with Abou El Fadl’s own name...
...clean for a light smoke, and a mesh-bottomed pan that grills such refined foods as caviar and the tiniest baby squid. Ordinary grilled flavor comes mainly from soot, but here exceptional-quality ingredients are barely enrobed in a gossamer smokiness. Ask for the daily menu, about six stunningly minimalist dishes. You may get incredible homemade txorizo or lobsters sacrificed live, martyrs to gastronomic ecstasy. There's even a smoked ice cream, made by first cooking milk over the coals. Etxebarri is one of only two restaurants I know that buys live angulas (baby eels) and makes them worth their...
...rritu with “Babel” and Alfonso Cuarón with “Children of Men”). Of the three films, “Pan’s Labyrinth” simultaneously has the most childlike thematic material and the most graphic violence. Minimalist-influenced music by composer Javier Navarrete, which builds on the theme of a mother’s lullaby, plays during intense visual depictions of gory births and deaths. In interviews, del Toro has attributed some of this familiarity with violence to his upbringing in the still-violent culture of Mexico...
Unlike Iraq, Afghanistan is a war fought backward, not a massive invasion on the front end but a minimalist effort that now demands a massive rescue operation. The situation in Afghanistan, a larger country with a bigger population than Iraq's, is so serious that the number of U.S. forces in the country has jumped more than 50% in the past year, to 27,000, a much bigger surge in percentage terms than is being argued over for Iraq. There are six times the number of soldiers as in 2002 when U.S. forces were staking out bin Laden in Tora...
...become a classic of contemporary dance, catapulting the company onto the world stage, including the hallowed Th??tre de la Ville in Paris, where last year ADT became the first Australian troupe invited to perform. "Dance in Europe had been dominated by very conceptual work that was physically very minimalist," explains Stewart, 44, "and we came crashing through with Birdbrain, which is completely maximalist from a movement point of view." From Feb. 20, at Sadler's Wells in London, the extremely muscular choreographer has the chance to further shift perceptions of the body and how it should move through space when...