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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Moment (1987) A convicted bank robber, after serving nine years in prison, has become a rich and famous media celebrity. A TV producer decides to bring him together with the mousey clerk who foiled the robbery. This provocative and prescient satire of the distorting mirror of reality TV would seem made to order for American audiences. Alas, nothing doing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Ayckbourn, M.I.A.: 10 Plays That Deserve Revivals | 4/24/2009 | See Source »

...will screen “Yellow Earth” with an introduction by Professor Eugene Y. Wang of Harvard’s East Asian Art History Program. Wang reveals that beneath an essentially “thin narrative” of rural Chinese peasants in 1939, there lies a rich history and an undercurrent of deep psychological introspection...

Author: By Crystal Huang, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: China's 'Yellow Earth' To Screen at Brattle | 4/24/2009 | See Source »

...intended as both an educational and uplifting event. “For people who are familiar with Down Syndrome, and for people who are completely unfamiliar,” Malcolm says, “[the concert] will open their eyes to people who are doing well and have really rich lives...

Author: By Mark A. Fusunyan, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Down Syndrome Concert | 4/24/2009 | See Source »

Dance is an art of the human body. It exposes emotions through physical manifestations, and choreography uses the rich lexicon of body language. It seems, then, that any choreographer looking to stretch the limits of corporeal expression would require performers with incredible versatility and training. But choreographers’ avid searches for such rare ability inevitably overlook one fascinating factor in human movement: disability.Heidi F. Latsky acknowledged this oversight. Previously a dancer for Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance and now a member of the Hofstra University faculty, she recently choreographed a performance featuring eight dancers, four of whom live with...

Author: By Antonia M.R. Peacocke, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: 'Gimp' Explores Disability | 4/24/2009 | See Source »

...high cost of caring for horses has sometimes led some owners to abandon their animals, to sell them to slaughterhouses or to attempts at fraud in order to collect insurance. But polo is a rich man's sport and Vargas certainly does not seem to have been hurting from the care and feeding of his steeds - or skimping on providing for them. His Lechuza Caracas polo team plays around the world, and he transports his stable of 60 ponies - estimated to cost about $100,000 each - on special jets...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Dead Polo Ponies and Their Millionaire Owner | 4/23/2009 | See Source »

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