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...scene in 1986 with The Golden Gate, a novel in verse set in California. His 1993 Indian saga A Suitable Boy - at nearly 1,400 pages the longest work of fiction in English since the 18th century - sold a million copies in Britain alone. Then came some poems, an opera libretto and ? nothing. "You don't know exactly what to write about next," Seth's mother, visiting from India, told him in 1994. "Why don't you write about him?" She was referring to another Seth family member who, improbably, has become the co-subject of one of the most...
...Turkmenistan President Saparmurat Niyazov; in Ashgabat. Niyazov, the former Soviet republic's famously autocratic leader?he has named the months of January and April after himself and his mother?said the decree was necessary to stem the tide of foreign influence in Turkmenistan. This follows his similar outlawing of opera and ballet in 2001 (currently, much of the music broadcast on Turkmenistan's airwaves are Niyazov's own words set to music). "Don't kill our talents by lip synching," he warned his cabinet. "Create our new culture...
...book, The City of Falling Angels (Penguin Press; 414 pages), due out in September, Berendt's subject is the death not of a human being but of a building: Gran Teatro La Fenice, Venice's 200-year-old gilded treasure chest of an opera house, which burned to the ground in 1996. Was it an accident or arson...
DIED. BARBARA BEL GEDDES, 82, Emmy-winning actress who rose to stardom on the big screen and Broadway but was best known for playing Miss Ellie Ewing, matriarch of the wildly dysfunctional oil family on the nighttime TV soap opera Dallas; in Northeast Harbor, Maine. Bel Geddes wowed critics in George Stevens' 1948 film I Remember Mama and in 1955 originated the role of Maggie in Tennessee Williams' play Cat on a Hot Tin Roof. In 1978 she moved to Dallas for the paycheck and took home an Emmy two years later...
...seen at "Frida Kahlo," a retrospective of nearly 90 works at London's Tate Modern until Oct. 9 (tel: [44-20] 7887 8008; www.tate.org.uk). Her work has been labeled socialist, feminist and Surrealist - but she defied every pigeonhole. What is certain is that her life played like a soap opera: at 18 she was horribly injured in a bus crash. In 1929 she married Loh and Behold Avant-garde murals and imaginative furnishings characterise a new Singapore hotel Identity Parade An iconic style magazine marks its quarter century Summits of Style Esoteric treatments in a minimalist setting A Starflyer...