Word: operas
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...cover story on Revenge of the Sith, director George Lucas' final addition to the Star Wars saga, prompted readers to share their excitement about the new movie, their disappointment with Lucas' recent efforts and their happy memories of growing up with the space opera that changed popular culture...
...amazing architectural pedigree. The architects who designed Hilles—Max Abramowitz and Wallace K. Harrison, a Worcester native—are also credited together or separately with the design or layout of Rockefeller Center, the United Nations Headquarters, and the Lincoln Center complex (including the Metropolitan Opera House, an obvious cousin of Hilles) in New York City, among others. The College certainly can’t go wrong deferring as much as possible to their original design...
...mystery and the answer, Jarmusch says, is in Murray's face, whose contours and conundrums are always worth studying. A brief glance upward earns as big a laugh as any Will Ferrell pratfall; a tear welling in his left eye has the impact of a Niagara from some soap opera star. But, here at least, he's not handing out clues to the mystery of character, let alone to the film's unsolved plot...
...simply, he wants something more along the lines of Eddie Temple's library. Eddie's the cherry on top of the Layer Cake, a master criminal with interests in legitimate real estate. Played with casually silky menace by Michael Gambon, he has developed a taste for opera (The Damnation of Faust naturally comes up in his conversations) and for rare books. We don't know that he reads them, but, by golly, he has them--housed in a burnished, glowingly lighted library. You can practically feel the sweat of desire forming on our antihero's lip when he penetrates this...
...sounds, from contrabassoon to erhu (as bridegroom and bride), in a sliding scale of culture. With Inguz (1996), named after a Viking rune symbolizing fertility, the clarinet threatens to soar at any moment into Gershwin-like rhapsody, but gives birth to something else - music as anthropology. For her 2000 opera Moon Spirit Feasting, the composer spent time in Malaysia observing the Hungry Ghost Festival, when Chinese communities entertain ancestral spirits with a month of street theater and song. In this sense, Lim's music is a votive offering to her past...