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"Cockroaches come out at night," intones a voice-over announcer in German. On three television screens, larger-than-life cockroaches crawl over sausages and bread. "They breed all over the world," continues the announcer. "For health reasons alone they must be exterminated." Scientists appear, wielding pipettes and tanks of lethal...
The subject at hand is Jones' new work Still/Here, now on a national tour (Seattle this week; after that Boston, Chicago and Los Angeles, among others). It is based on a series of "survival workshops" that Jones, who is hiv positive, held around the country. The participants, who were dying...
In the traditional Japanese house, Scawthorn says, the first floor lacks interior walls that could help support the weight of the second floor, as they would for a Western home; in Japan rooms are frequently separated by flimsy, sliding shoji screens. Scawthorn's recommendation: place a few steel braces along...
Yet if the network business is thriving, it is as a radically different sort of business. The line between distributors (the networks) and suppliers (outside producers) is being blurred. The networks, given the chance to produce and own their shows, are acting more like studios, while the studios, afraid of...
"The first half gave us an opportunity to kind of get a feel for what they were all about--the hard screens, the ball reversal--and that's what we talked about defensively in the locker room," Sullivan said. "I think at half-time, the guys realized what they needed...