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The Beckett Festival, which ended last week, is fresh evidence of a bustling industry devoted to the Nobel-prizewinning author. He has inspired more than 100 books, including three essential studies this year: Mel Gussow's Conversations with and About Beckett (Grove Press) and two biographies--Lois Gordon's The...
Students at Julliard, Curtis and other conservatories often lead monastic lives, practicing for seven or eight hours each day.
"Carmina Burana," (1959) the first piece in the Tuesday night performance of the Alvin Ailey dance company's run at the Wang Center begins with the entire company dancing onto the stage dressed as monks. The costumes are in keeping with the music, a collection of songs and poems composed...
The leader of Sinn Fein came early to this dual role. In 1972, as street battles between Catholic Republicans and Protestant Unionists raged in Belfast, Adams was arrested by the British army and interned without charge. "There is nothing like being in an interrogation room to test your commitment," he...
Most serious European directors would never admit it -- they'd say it's a form of movie idolatry endemic only to Hollywood -- but they love to stargaze. They will put an attractive actress on-screen for 1 1/2 hours and mostly . . . just . . . watch . . . her. She poses at a window, she...