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...showcases jaw-dropping acrobatic feats, but it cradles them in outsize theatrical wizardry: a huge stage space with many scene changes and a theater designed to suit the show, with side balconies from which the performers can fly over the audience. Like a Broadway show, Kà has a plot, a dozen or more characters and a sonorous score. It blends these two forms and extends them with the company's determination to create something new under the Las Vegas sun--a spectacle of burly martial arts contained in a tender love story...
...Cirque secret: rendering the undoable beautiful. Aiming for the highest common denominator, Cirque makes nearly every other form of entertainment seem timid, sullen, earthbound. Kà flies at its own giddy altitude and takes you along for the ride. If you catch the import of every gesture and plot point, fine. If not, you can still feel the lift and thrust, the vertiginous thrill. Either way, it's quite a trip, one that turns an evening at the theater into an exalting hallucination. Kà induces rapture. --With reporting by Steven Frank/ Las Vegas
...childhood. In her newest research, Taylor is interviewing fiction writers and finding that they interact with their characters in some ways that parallel children's make-believe play. Authors often report that their characters seem to have autonomous lives, dictating their own dialogue, controlling the plot of stories and sometimes refusing to do what the authors ask of them. Some writers maintain personal relationships with characters outside their fictions. Novelist Alice Walker says she lived with her characters for a year while writing The Color Purple, even moving from New York City to Northern California to please them. They didn...
Police reports and interviews with victims suggest that Vaghar’s plot was more extensive than The Crimson first reported on Jan. 12, and that she frequently changed her persona and story...
While the exact structure of the alleged scam could not be confirmed, interviews suggested that most of the earlier victims of the plot, who first responded to the posting in July and planned to move in at the end of the summer, have been paid back, while many of the later victims have yet to be repaid in full, and some have not yet received any of their money...