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Each of these images--from The Good, the Bad and the Ugly, Once Upon a Time in the West, The Mission, The Untouchables, Cinema Paradiso and Malčna--has its own meaning and feeling. But if, during these movies, you feel an elevation of spirit or tension, it's because you've fallen under the spell of Ennio Morricone's music...
...suggests that God really meant to give Moses the land of Canada, not Canaan. Moses is asked by God to which country he would like to take the children of Israel. Moses was a stutterer and he wanted to say Canada, but it came out as Ca-ca-ca-na-na-na. So God thought he meant Canaan and sent the children of Israel there. The Jews turn on Moses and say, ''You idiot! We could have had Canada, instead of this miserable godforsaken Middle Eastern blight, surrounded by sand and Arabs!'' The Zionist vision came to earth...
...good example of the new kind of venue to be found - blending northern-Chinese substance with an international style more commonly found in China's worldlier south. Housed in a crumbling former state schoolhouse near the Workers' Stadium, the striking, design-driven watering hole and accompanying restaurants (Lan Na Thai and the Indian Hazara) cost $1.9 million to develop. As in Face Shanghai (there are also Face bars in Jakarta and Bangkok), eclectic pan-Asian chic is the order of the decorative day, incorporating a controlled mishmash of antiques and artworks from across the region. "Beijing...
...combined complex rhythms and lines to make it seem as if they were one performer at the piano. After the intermission, the Bernstein compositions began with “Yigdal,” a fantastic round clearly influenced by Bernstein’s Jewish tradition. “Simchu Na,” a Bernstein arrangement, again featured the Festival Singers, who handled its difficult language and melodies well. Hilary K. Finucane ’09 treated Bernstein’s “Seven Anniversaries”—short pieces in tribute to important figures...
...guess with a society built on contradictions, you can only have an ambivalent relationship." And she finds its government repulsive. "What puts us [in Europe] off most is its in-your-face hypocrisy. It's this idea of American exceptionalism, the moral talk and the overt and often naïve religiousness." Of course there is a wide spectrum of European opinion toward the U.S., and not all of it is well-informed. But Senator Chuck Hagel, a Republican on the Foreign Relations Committee, told me that his greatest worry about U.S. foreign policy is that "we're losing...