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Miller's minimal use of props was also interesting. A silver cross slung around his neck jingled against the high school ring given him by his boyfriend "from Anaheim." He also cradled a piece of solidified lava to his chest as he talked about the "eruption" of AIDS that had buried so many of his friends...
...ever the earnest apologist. "Few people," she writes about a similar outburst, "realized how compensatory those comments actually were." But if anyone should be excused his megalomania, it was Frank Lloyd Wright. He created dozens of masterworks, and his influence on a century of architecture is unequalled. Low-slung suburban houses, cathedral ceilings, wide-open interiors, the blurring of the indoor-outdoor distinction, office-building atriums -- there is scarcely any contemporary American architectural move that Wright's work did not presage 50, 75, even 100 years ago. His was a vast, Promethean talent, nearly as vast and Promethean...
...unmistakable from the opening moments of Mt. Morgan. The title refers to an automobile skid in mid-blizzard that has left . the central character, an aging insurance entrepreneur, physically shattered and confined to a hospital bed. Yet this wreckage of a man rises, leaving behind the outline of his slung and plastered body, to pace the stage and engage other characters in conversations he recalls, conversations he imagines, conversations he wants to have, and sometimes conversations he daydreams about in the midst of other conversations...
...camouflage-clad American troops with automatic rifles slung over their shoulders have all but disappeared from the streets of Riyadh. In the cool evening hours, Saudi families once again browse in the stores, examining electronic gadgets and comparing the latest imported luxury cars. In Jidda, gateway to the Muslim shrines of Mecca and Medina, preparations are well under way to accommodate the 2 million pilgrims expected during this month's hajj. Says an adviser to a senior Saudi minister: "We feel a cloud has been lifted from over our land...
...device went off with a huge blast, triggered by a manual detonator. It killed him instantly, ripping into his torso and mutilating his face beyond recognition. It also killed at least 15 others. A policewoman lay dead with both legs severed. Nearby was a slain photographer, his camera still slung around his neck...