Word: projects
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...with Sonny and Cher's on-stage hi-jinx) was Bono's idea and that they were going to run it past Cher next. Bono had planned to confer with his team again after the skiing trip. His death on Monday -- the funeral is today -- has reportedly put the project on hold...
...Miho Museum I.M. Pei is best known for resounding Modernist statements like the Rock and Roll Museum in Cleveland, Ohio. For this project in the hills of a nature preserve near Kyoto, Japan, he chose literal understatement--80% of the main building is belowground. But first he leads visitors along a wooded pathway, through a tunnel and over a cable suspension bridge, an enchanted path to buried art treasures...
...anecdote told at epic length. Grier, foxy lady of '70s blaxploitation, is given little chance to radiate; you never even glimpse her magnificent shoulders. As for Tarantino, he is playing peekaboo with his sizable talent. Jackie Brown marks time, lots of it, between Pulp Fiction and his next great project...
...going for it in a big way. Wildhorn's next project is The Civil War, a "dramatic emotional tapestry" for which he has set to music letters, diaries and other documents from the war. It will be released, as usual, first as an album (performed by artists ranging from Trisha Yearwood to Hootie & the Blowfish), then as a TV special, and finally a stage show. After that: Havana, a "musical comedy noir" set in the 1940s; a musical version of Alice in Wonderland; and Svengali, the second (after Jekyll) in what he envisions as a gothic trilogy...
...When Dove talked and wrote about abstraction, what did he mean? Not pure abstract form, certainly. Nature was of absolutely paramount importance to him: in hills, rocks, sea, sky, trees, moon and sun, he saw a richness and variety of shape that inspired him throughout his working life. His project was to "liberate" forms from them, losing or blurring their descriptive qualities while trying to keep the sense of energy and continuous change--of life itself--that animated them...