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...gloomy underground lake, and a chandelier that appears to crash onto the audience at the end of Act I. The multiple trapdoors that create many of the illusions -- there are 102 tiny ones to accommodate the candles that rise from the gloom to illuminate the Phantom's subterranean realm -- are all controlled by computer. Says Will Bowen, assistant production manager in London: "The gloss is Victorian, but it took high tech to make it look that...
...keep tabs on his burgeoning realm, Lloyd Webber is a man in almost perpetual motion. During the year between the London and New York openings of Phantom, he has circled the globe in his leased Hawker Siddeley 125 jet, making arrangements for new productions and spot-checking the quality level of old ones. "I have been all over the world until I hardly know what time of day it is," he says. It doesn't matter: the sun never sets on this new British empire...
Podhoretz began by comparing Brodsky's claims to "the most notorious American example of professional deformation in the realm of politics--Charles Wilson's "What's good for the country is good for General Motors and vice versa." He argues that like Wilson, "Brodsky's statement attributes a wildly disproportionate role to his own field of endeavor...
...case of an enemy of totalitarianism failing to listen to someone who's lived under it. The great evil of the Soviet Union or the Third Reich is its ability to stamp out the humanity of humans. Brodksy knows this evil, having lived in a world where the private realm is quite completely controlled by the state...
...British aristocracy. His family was rich and well placed, and he progressed comfortably along one of the courses marked out for England's future leaders: Eton, the Life Guards (whose duty it was to protect the sovereign), riding to hounds with the most exalted men in the realm...