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MOSCOW -- Increasingly, radioactive materials are turning up on public transport, raising serious safety questions. Last week police arrested a train rider for carrying radioactive matter. Afterward a research facility said the man was its courier, claimed the material posed "no danger" and admitted it regularly used passenger trains to transport radioactive substances. In November a thief was arrested after carrying uranium-235 on the subway, and in December two men were arrested after riding with a stolen cache of potentially explosive cesium. Both materials can be deadly...
...Rider Moloto, one of the organizers of theevent, said in an interview that the ANC needsfinancial assistance to wage a successfulcampaign...
...Faustian pact with the Devil and turn it over to a composer of hobo rock, a legendary writer from the Beat Generation, and a director who specializes in performance pieces for the art crowd. But don't go away. A pop opera of very odd sorts called The Black Rider is a triumph for its three collaborators, Tom Waits, William S. Burroughs and Robert Wilson...
With The Black Rider, Wilson reveals that he is not only a high-minded mystifier but a real, low-down entertainer. In Wilson's theater, ideas are pictures. He lights his tableaux with hallucinatory intensity, populating them with actors, all in white makeup, who move with a combination of stiffness and grace. His performers enact archetypes rather than characters, using stylized gestures and movements out of his globe trotter's trunk. In the past, watching a Wilson event has sometimes been like finding yourself in a dream you want to -- but can't -- get out of. Here, given the fairy...
...Black Rider is a triumph for its collaborators...