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...what is surely one of the best opening scenes of any musical.One of these variations, in particular, sticks in my mind. Three tenors, in spot-on close harmony, stretch the theme’s muscular second half into a single, eerie legato line, singing, “See your razor gleam, Sweeney / See how well it fits / As it floats across the throats of hypocrites.” What a line! How perfectly matched are all those sliding consonants to Sondheim’s music. Many have said that “Sweeney Todd” is more an opera...
...consummate nightmare of any male with a fearless reputation, Houellebecq is getting a very public spanking from his own mother - and, man, is she one hacked-off lady. Even worse for the 50-year-old Houellebecq: she is showing the same talent for raunchy phrases and razor-sharp asides that made her son France's reigning literary sensation...
...Rabbi Pollock was cautious, of course - likening an ancient religion to children's fiction may not be particularly prudent in a country that is home to more holy sites and razor wire than anywhere on earth...
...imminent release of the results may be a result of increasing pressure from African leaders to resolve the crisis. And although analysts had expected that after the four-week delay, the result would give Mugabe a razor-thin majority, forcing a run-off that the ruling party would then try to win through violent intimidation, the fact that the recount upheld the opposition parliamentary victory may have revised pessimistic expectations. "I think it's going to be very difficult for them to announce anything other than a Tsvangirai win tomorrow," Zimbabwean human rights activist Elinor Sisulu told TIME from South...
...thoughts turn to the world outdoors, a new book invites us to greet it with a fresh eye. Avant Gardeners looks at the point where conceptual art meets landscape gardening and highlights the work of 50 designers who, for the past decade or so, have reacted to the glassy, razor-edge precision of modernist architecture with creations that go way beyond raised flower beds and mounds of perfect lawn. "These gardens are about ideas first and foremost," says author Tim Richardson. "They're not mainly about plants and they're not really about function." Instead, they use surreal scaling, vivid...