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...struggles for power, owes much to Brook. But the insights into the characters, the reasoned resistance to happy endings and especially the mesmeric visual imagery are Ciulei's own. From the first moment, this Dream shows itself to be more about grim realities and revelatory nightmares. The captive Amazon Queen Hippolyta (Lorraine Toussaint), garbed as a soldier and coiffed with a Grace Jones-style Mohawk, stands mute yet defiant as the guards of Duke Theseus (Gary Reineke) surround her. They tear off her uniform and toss it onto a fire, revealing her torso clad in a confining, seductive undergarment...
...surprised to find that in referring to Queen Elizabeth's appearance, TIME would use such an outdated description as "dour librarian." The library profession has been combatting this unfortunate stereotypical image for years. There is no time or inclination to be dour in the modern library. Marla Schwartz Bethesda...
...Mammoth Hunters continues the best-selling adventures of Ayla, the Cro-Magnon sexpot with the brain of gold. Having said goodbye to the Neanderthals who raised her (The Clan of the Cave Bear), and having met the blond hunk Jondalar (The Valley of Horses), the queen of the ice age finds it hard to be both beautiful and brilliant. After a hard day as animal trainer, physician, fire maker and slingshot instructor, Ayla must decide whom to choose for "a turn in the furs." Should it be dependable Jondalar or stylish Ranec, the romantic, dark-skinned artist who actually asks...
...wider look at the world of art theft, a place where, to put it mildly, curatorial standards are not maintained. Gainsboroughs are manhandled by drug dealers; Vermeers are jammed into car trunks like Mafia stool pigeons. One set of thieves decided that a large Henry Moore bronze, King and Queen, was too heavy to move, so they took out a chainsaw and cut off the heads, figuring those might be worth something. It's a miracle that they didn't drill holes in the scalps and try to sell the things as planters...
...that old Mardi Gras madness has rubbed off on the Egyptian god-king. For starters, Lelong Drive, leading up to the city's Museum of Art, was painted a kind of Nile blue. The Fairmont Hotel opened a tent restaurant outside the museum with such specialties as Sphinxburger, Queen Nefertiti's Salad and Ramses' Gumbo ... The New Leviathan Oriental Fox Trot Orchestra has released an Old King Tut album ... For those who must wait outside the museum, 16 portable 'Tutlets' are at their disposal ... 'The civic and cultural leaders are ridiculing the Egyptian deity,' [one of the exhibition's organizers...