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...which may, in the view of experts, be the work of a very close imitator), shows how this drama worked. The light pours over the forms of the young hero's body like a photoflash, stopping the action at its climax. Every lit shape has its rim of darkness, isolating it in deep relief. Caravaggio's best late paintings (none of which could be lent to Cleveland) rely absolutely on this tension between commonplace detail and sublime staging. Caught between the transfiguring light and the gnawing darkness, his figures acquired a mysterious, haunting irrationality. Sometimes the flow...
...slim game, Manager Charlie Fox seemed all but spooked. "How in God's name could they be so lucky?" he exclaimed. "They win with broken-bat hits, handle hits, bunts just barely out of reach, hits off the end of the bat, balls that hit the rim of the Astroturf carpet and hop funny. But luck has got to come back to us now. It's impossible for things to continue going the way they have for them." Not necessarily. The Dodgers of late have been making their own breaks, with Wills, Mota, Centerfielder Willie Davis and Third...
...Mayuzumi's Concerto for Percussion. Even the players' chairs are part of a huge steel stage sculpture designed by Japan's Yasuhide Kobashi. Perhaps "chairs" is not the best word: the seats are actually wood slats fastened like steps up and down vertical tubes that rim the rear of the stage. Some seats are as high as six feet; no two are in the same sight line. It pleases the players that each of them is entirely visible to the audience, although a trombonist who gets up carelessly to take a bow can easily topple...
...dawn broke over the Himalayas one chilly morning in 1962, thousands of crack Chinese troops swarmed south through 14,500-foot-high passes along Thag La Ridge, a windswept rim along part of the disputed border between Tibet and northeastern India. At the same time, more Chinese forces sprang into action 900 miles to the west in another disputed area, the sere wasteland known as Aksai Chin, or Desert of White Stone...
...Carmen operas, and he says "I always thought they were all wrong. If you see in Carmen nothing but a nymphomaniac who meets a tenor, seduces him, gets tired of him, then meets a bullfighter-it's a bore." Instead, he went back to the original Mérimée novel to help create Carmen as a shrewd, tough outcast-a gypsy in an age when gypsies were treated very much like blacks in an intolerant white society...