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...relatively tender age of 34, India-born Nair has built a global reputation for her skill at portraying those lives. With unsentimental care, her camera has focused over the past 13 years on homeless children, homesick exiles and struggling immigrants. Her first feature film, Salaam Bombay!, won awards at Cannes in 1988 and an Academy Award nomination. Her second, Mississippi Masala, a piquant love story about an Indian immigrant and a black American in the Deep South, is garnering warm reviews and a growing following. A film about the life of Buddha is in preproduction, and its $30 million budget...
...fans know, the defining characteristic of good jazz music is the style and skill of the artist in improvisation. Placed onstage next to a flock of tuxedoed musicians sawing away on 17th and 18th century violins, the Quartet seemed to forget this. The quartet/trio simply didn't improvise...
...good square dance is a good caller. he or she must orchestrate many different elements, acting as shepherd to trusting square dancers. Don Beck, the caller at Tech Squares, is superb, smoothing out intra-square troubles, filling dead time with mildly corny jokes, mixing the music with skill and aplomb...
...ruling National Salvation Front have blocked any deeper reform. The moves so far have served mainly to spur inflation and unemployment without easing the severe shortages of all consumer goods, including food. Bulgaria at least has enough to eat, thanks largely to the fertility of its soil and the skill of its farmers. It has also made some progress toward political freedom: incumbent President Zhelyu Zhelev, chosen in 1990 by the parliament, won the nation's first direct presidential election last month against an opponent who accused him of trying to impose an "alien" system -- a market-oriented democracy...
...conditioned homes and offices, climate-controlled shopping malls, refrigerated grocery stores, squeaky-clean computer chips. Extricating the planet from the chemical burden of that high-tech life-style -- for both those who enjoy it and those who aspire to it -- will require not just technical ingenuity but extraordinary diplomatic skill...