Word: sheeps
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...gloriously. Ignoring Stein's simulacrum of a plot (the lives of 16th century Spanish saints), Wilson treats the opera's Dadaesque musings as a delicate dreamscape, filling the stage with characteristically elliptical images. Some, such as a levitating illuminated triangle, are familiar from earlier Wilson spectacles, while others--fluffy sheep that slowly ascend into the heavens, where they become clouds--are new. Robustly conducted by Dennis Russell Davies, the opera's simple Midwestern melodies provide an ideal complement to the graceful stage pictures, while the cast, headed by soprano Ashley Putnam (St. Theresa I) and baritone Sanford Sylvan (St. Ignatius...
...quite so Big Business. For the constituency of the left--that majority of people whose only "business" is to sell their labor by the hour or by the week--1996 offers almost nothing at all. Unless, of course, they're willing to be bamboozled by another suit in sheep's clothing...
...BABE The three years that Chris Noonan put into directing real and animatronic dogs, mice and sheep and one adorable pig were well worth the effort. Babe is no lumbering effects movie; there's a fairy-tale soul in this machine...
...obsessively refined surfaces, was one of the main sources for Art Deco style. Imagine the top of the Chrysler Building carved from oak, and you have something very like his sculptural bases. As Rowell points out in the catalog, guests in his Paris studio would be regaled with homemade sheep's milk cheese and a glass of iced champagne--funk and chic together, essential Brancusi. He loved contrasting the rough with the smooth, the hyper-refined freehand curve with the lump and the block. And when those sleek organic forms, half-volatilized in light, rise up from their wooden pedestals...
...that could have been used to measure plutonium. The sect, whose leader faces murder charges as a result of the subway attack, had also tried to buy 400 Israeli-made gas masks and did purchase land in Australia where it tested batches of the deadly sarin nerve gas on sheep. Mark Thompson reports: "This is going to be increasingly problematic as more and more terrorists get access to materials to make chemical and biological weapons. The concern should not be terrorists getting their hands on nuclear weapons. Nuclear weapons facilities can be easily detected using existing intelligence. The problem...