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...been a down-and-up season for Stephen Hough. First, his high-profile appearance at Lincoln Center's Rachmaninoff Revisited festival in New York City, where he was scheduled to play the Russian composer's Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini, was scratched on account of Sept. 11. Just six weeks later, though, the pianist got a jaw-dropping phone call that wiped out all the disappointment and then some. He learned he had been tapped for a coveted MacArthur Fellowship, the $500,000 "genius grant" awarded for brilliance above and beyond the call of duty, a prize never before...
...fashion of Russian tragedy, the lives of the title characters spiral downwards; although it might be more proper to say that they circle the same path over and over again, gradually deteriorating in spirit. Whether they will get to Moscow is not the question. What the audience wonders, and what the characters must come to terms with, is what happens when they realize they will not get there...
...influences writing this thesis have been Henry James, Aimee Bender, Haruki Murakami, Marguerite Duras, Hitchcock’s Vertigo and Russian patricidal literature (my father thinks he’s going to be the “bad guy” in the story, but I don’t think there’ll be any daddy-killing...
...Russian patricidal literature...
...tide has turned on the Taliban, and turned quickly. U.S. air support has helped the Northern Alliance reclaim half of the country in less than a week, opening the way for Russian logistical support that will likely prevent a Taliban comeback in the north for the foreseeable future. And now that they're no longer the masters of all Afghanistan, many local warlords and even Pasthun tribal leaders currently aligned with the Taliban may be inclined to switch sides...