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Perhaps the most unusual company that will appear at the festival all summer is the Théâtre du Soleil (Theater of the Sun) from France. Founded in 1964 by Oxford-educated Director Ariane Mnouchkine, the troupe attempts to create a theater of pure metaphor, stripped of the last...
The Freer exhibition is a fascinating show, for its context as well as its contents. Charles Lang Freer, who made his millions in rolling stock in the boom railroad years of the late 19th century, was an impassioned Orientalist, a disciple of the "Boston bonzes," chiefly of Ernest Fenollosa. As...
The takeover fever that has infected American business continued to burn unabated last week. Beatrice Foods, which owns such brands as Tropicana orange juice, La Choy Oriental food and Swiss Miss chocolate mix, offered $2.8 billion for Esmark, which owns Playtex, Max Factor and Avis. The bid, which Esmark approved...
The U.S. press may believe that Americans are amused by looking at pictures of smiling Oriental children, Chinese "couples in love" and adorable panda bears. But one important fact is left out: the people are kept under a rigid, totalitarian regime that talks peace, understanding and freedom, but is as...
MacLaine has three residences: a beach-front apartment building in Malibu that she built as an investment, a hideaway in Washington State with panoramic views of Mount Rainier and a comfortably cluttered apartment on Manhattan's East Side. The furniture there is mostly old and relatively inexpensive. The objects...