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...wires, McBurney melds the three stories into a meditation on anxiety and loss amid the placid routines of life in urban Japan. The kitchen salesman's elephant fixation ruins a potential romance. The larcenous couple learn they don't really know each other ("What was she doing with ski masks?" asks the exasperated husband. "We've never gone skiing.") The sleepless housewife realizes she despises her well-ordered life and runs off to a potential date with the Big Sleep-death. Things taken for granted suddenly seem out of place, and cause becomes separated from effect. "Our world has become...
Forty-six Harvard undergraduates made the short trip to Manchester on Friday, cheering on their president at an afternoon rally in a secluded ski resort on the outside of town...
...chorus of scripted messages emerged like a round from the six tables erected in the ski resort’s empty parking...
...first day of school in Beslan, a midsize town of 30,000 located about 900 miles from Moscow, parents brought snacks for the children. Students brought flowers for their teachers, and some carried balloons. They were just lining up in the schoolyard when dozens of men in black ski masks and camouflage appeared. "This is a seizure!" they shouted, as panicked families tried to flee. A few lucky children hid behind heating-system boilers and got away; the rest were herded into the gym. When a parent tried to calm the families down, a guerrilla walked over, put his assault...
...thieves who snatched The Scream and one other Munch canvas from the Munch Museum in Oslo, Norway, subjected them to rough handling from the start. On Aug. 22, at 11:10 a.m., about an hour after the museum opened, two men wearing hooded sweatshirts, gloves and ski masks burst through a side entrance. One of them waved a pistol, terrifying visitors, then pointed it at the head of an unarmed female guard and barked in Norwegian, "Lie down!" Meanwhile an accomplice dashed through the ground-floor galleries until he came upon Munch's Madonna from 1893-94. The apotheosis...