Word: rebirth
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Then comes the journey back up to the light. To get from the lobby, you climb one of two narrow stairways that lead to the theater, a stark, black-paneled performance space that can seat 600, with lime green upholstery that may or may not be a metaphor for rebirth. In most theaters, the auxiliary spaces - things like the lobby, rehearsal rooms, café and offices - surround the auditorium. Because the Wyly stacks those on the floors above and below, it was possible to surround the stage area with glass walls on three sides. Directors can use the outside world...
...rebirth is no surprise to Joseph Kahn, who directed Spears in her greatest video triumphs over the years (including "Toxic" and "Stronger"). He knew there had been projects that just plain fell through during what he calls "the blackout period," but still, Kahn jumped at the chance to direct the singer in her comeback video "Womanizer" in late...
...their last legs - but small, visionary startup companies like Aptera Motors, Fisker Automotive, Tesla Motors and Bright Automotive are starting to sell their cool, cutting-edge, battery-powered cars, and a decade from now any one of them might be the household name that epitomizes our 21st century industrial rebirth. (I just drove in an Aptera. It looks like an awesome Jetsons vehicle, plugs into the wall, drives like a dream, goes 100 miles on a charge, costs under $30,000 - and I want...
Intelligence failures are more understandable today than they were in 1979. At that time, Washington stubbornly stood behind the regime of secular and autocratic Mohammad Reza Shah Pahlavi, despite the rebirth of religious fundamentalism among millions of Iranians and their yearning for an obscure Muslim cleric living in exile: Ayatullah Ruhollah Khomeini. U.S. military, diplomatic and intelligence officers blanketed Tehran but ignored the gathering storm. It was a massive blunder. Khomeini swept into power and transformed Middle East politics and alliances. His supporters seized the American compound and its occupants, an act that has frozen bilateral relations in a state...
When it comes to humanity's darkest moments, time is both a blessing and a curse. Firebombed cities get rebuilt. Saplings grow in abandoned death camps. Wounded soldiers heal or pass on. Yet with rebirth comes the danger of forgetting, of repeating old mistakes and of failing to learn history's bloodiest lessons...