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WHETHER ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON was more than a writer of wonderful stories for 12-year-old boys is a question settled beyond doubt by this readable and authoritative biography: he was also, at the very least, the jaunty and flamboyant hero of an extraordinary life story. Frank McLynn's Robert...
Working on a relationship, of course, is an activity that everyone-save for perhaps the most wildly romantic and misguided among us-has come to regard as a sometimes thrilling, sometimes infuriating, but always necessary exercise. But Mark and Laura, well meaning, full of love and hope, with their lives...
When performed whole, the opera probes the lossof illusions, both the romantic aspirations ofMagda and the career ambitions of her servantLisette. By removing the third act, where thepiece's complications emerge, the Dunster Housecrew leave us with a thinly equivocal presentationof the illusions themselves, devoid of theundercutting irony that lends...
In Israeli films, war is a prevailing theme, so it is hardly surprising that Song of the Sirens is set against the backdrop of the Gulf War. What makes it unusual--and refreshingly so--is that the film is a romantic comedy about looking for love while Saddam Hussein's...
PARIS. A spectacular showcase concert hall has opened at the Cite de la Musique, the shell-shaped rosy white complex of institutions and advanced-research facilities devoted to musical study and performance. The striking auditorium in the Parc de la Villette was built in modular fashion by French architect Christian...