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...creative ways to further the plot. As Shadgett explains, "The opera had a number of 'tough spots' where we either didn't want to or couldn't afford to do things as they were traditionally done...Killing the Queen of the Night by having the light dissolve her shadow was our alternative to the stage direction, 'They sink into the earth.'" Shadgett credits the opportunity for creativity to "the producer, Mary Whitman ['01], [who] took care of all of the logistics with such extraordinary competence that the creative directors could just concentrate on being creative...
...micropayments in quite the way Beenz.com does, and no other company is aiming quite so high. Before the year is out, Letts plans to distribute beenz on cell phones and on MasterCard-backed Mondex smart cards. Beenz.com recently logged its 15 millionth beenz transaction, and Letts predicts--"without a shadow of a doubt"--that this year the company will sign up its 5 millionth customer. By then, who knows how much a hill of beenz might be worth...
Shakespeare takes this all in with a shadow's unobtrusiveness, never putting himself forward except to throw in a perfect quote from Henry David Thoreau or Blaise Cendrars. More even than his encompassing research, it is his undeluded sympathy that persuades us. Chatwin "needed someone both to run away from and to come back to," Shakespeare writes, with typical shrewdness, "and he found in Elizabeth that person." In the woman who was forced to work as a cashier in a Toad Hall garden center while her now famous husband gallivanted around the world collecting lovers, the author finds a hero...
...relaxed summer beaches of Rio de Janeiro, nobody glances twice when a woman parades by in a microscopic bikini or wriggles out of her top to sunbathe. But last month pet-shop assistant Rosemeri da Costa, 34, was tanning herself topless on Recreio beach when a shadow fell across her towel. She looked up and saw a gang of policemen armed with truncheons standing over her. In a spasm of puritanism, the police had decided to enforce a 70-year-old law against immorality. They demanded that Da Costa slip back into her top. When she refused, the police dragged...
...popular music: "When a song is a standard, it can reproduce itself from one of its constituent parts. If you recite the words you will hear the melody." Everett imagines a group called the Midrash Jazz Quartet performing Old Testament-style exegeses on such works as Me and My Shadow and Stardust...