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...movie—emphasized that “Across the Universe” is no ordinary musical, and that making it was no ordinary performing experience. BRIDGING THE GAP Making a film based on Beatles covers is a formidable task. For starters, how do you pull together an original plot from lyrics everyone has already interpreted? And how do you rearrange classic tunes without offending legions of Beatles fans? Instead of splicing studio-recorded singing into the film’s sound track, Taymor, who won a Tony for directing Broadway’s “The Lion King...
...storage, the zoo’s increasing exposure both endangered and camouflaged its secret occupants. It is a beautiful and intriguing story, and were it structured differently, there is no doubt that Ackerman’s narrative would have been as emotionally gripping as Benigni’s. But plot is clearly not the driving force of the book. Instead, Ackerman focuses on stylistic experimentation as well as naturalist observation. The latter is enthralling in its meticulousness, but it distracts and disengages the reader from Antonina. Ackerman the writer clearly has difficulty separating herself from Ackerman the naturalist. Antonina frequently...
...says another. MUSHARRAF AND BB MAKE IT AT LAST, says a third. A popular e-mail going around shows a photograph of Musharraf and Bhutto doctored to look as if they are the happy couple at a traditional Pakistani wedding ceremony. The Supreme Court ruling is just the latest plot twist in an ongoing drama. "This is a tale told by an idiot full of sound and fury signifying nothing," says...
...Nawaz Sharif, the former Prime Minister who was ousted by military coup in 1999, and Musharraf. For the past 20 years those names have dominated the Pakistani political scene. "It really is like a soap opera," says Haq. "Year after year we still see the same faces, the same plot and the same kind of deal making." And it seems, the formulaic cliffhangers...
...thing the Council for National Policy (CNP) is never supposed to do is make news. The invitation-only club, whose aggressively vague name is an invisibility cloak for some of the most influential economic and social conservatives in the country, meets three times a year to plot the vast right-wing conspiracy's next moves--and remind its members not to talk to reporters or even refer to the group by name. Those attending the three-day September meeting in Salt Lake City got to hear Vice President Dick Cheney talk about the war and Mitt Romney testify...