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...Monday evening, U.N. officials say, the two Americans had gone to the border area to visit friends in a Danish engineering unit. Border guards apparently mistook their white jeep for a U.N. vehicle and waved them through several checkpoints. After Bangladeshi soldiers at a U.N. position turned them back, the men tried to retreat but were stopped by Iraqi police just 25 yards from the border...
There are also Sacksian spin-offs: Harold Pinter's 1982 play A Kind of Alaska was inspired by Awakenings. Both a Michael Nyman opera and Peter Brook's The Man Who are theatrical versions of Sacks' 1985 best seller The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat; the Brook play opens at the Brooklyn Academy of Music this week...
...general, the unfriendly, frigid conditions did not affect the attitude of these residents. Surprisingly, most were very casual and friendly about speaking of their undesirable living conditions. However, FM did experience much suspicion and hostility when calling the first-year students of Matthews Hall. Every person contacted mistook us for a crank caller, and one insolent character even laughed and then hung up. Perhaps the combination of a cold dorm room and a new environment brought back comforting memories of a warm, safe home and a parent's warning "not to talk to strangers...
...rifles, pistols and grenade launchers, killing three guards. The robbers emerged from the vault with $200,000 and greeted arriving police with a fusillade that wounded five people, including a policeman. The police pursued the fleeing robbers, but soon ran out of ammunition. A squad car broke down. Officers mistook a passing van for a getaway car and fired on it; inside was a police colonel, who sought refuge in a nearby supermarket. Said Jun Grajales, a university teacher: ``People now cower in fear when they see cops, whereas before they used to sigh in relief.'' The gunmen remain...
...sense, he has never left criticism behind. His scores are replete with references to other music, and he uses the source material as the launching point for his own rhythmically relentless, acerbically orchestrated commentaries. "Music," he says, "is power, passion, pulse, pain." In the psychologically astute The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat, for example, Nyman used a Schumann song, Ich grolle nicht, as the musical foundation of the opera to illustrate the eponymous victim's visual agnosia: unable to synthesize visual images, the man relied on Schumann's music to help him apprehend the world...