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When this Odyssey gets going, it's not just an adventure; it's a trip. Anything from flowers to fire may pop out of the sunburnt-orange floorboards. A stormy sea comes to roiling life with just a tilted spar and a few sprawling actors. By the end, the Arena has become a playroom filled with spritely wonder...
Clinton and Hosokawa spar publicly as summit trade talks crash
After training with the club for at least two months, members have the option to spar with each other. Before sparring, members must don so much protective gear that "you could fall down a flight of stairs and not hurt yourself too bad," Codrington says. Coach Rawson is careful to match up only fighters of similar size and skill, and closely regulates bouts. And while sparring can get intense, it never gets out of hand. Brann notes that the club does not train its members "to be aggressive and hurt people." This view is echoed by Codrington, who says that...
...this show isn't the end of civilization as we know it, but it's glum, preachy, sophomoric and aesthetically aimless. Indifferent to pleasure, it becomes college-level art for college-level thinking about civic virtue. Part of the trouble is that the Whitney, like a swimmer clutching a spar, still clings to the romantic avant-garde idea that visual artists get to sense things before anyone else, that they are uniquely equipped with social antennae that tell us what's wrong with the world before other folk can cotton on to it. Apart from a small number of gifted...
JUST MAYBE, THERE IS A CEASE-FIRE IN THE GLOBAL air wars. As a first step toward easing transatlantic tensions, the U.S. Department of Transportation has tentatively approved the proposed merger of Northwest and KLM Royal Dutch airlines. The endorsement comes as Washington and European countries spar over "open skies" agreements. Britain, for instance, is pressing the U.S. to okay a proposed alliance between British Airways and USAir. The Americans are also squabbling with France and Germany over airport landing rights. U.S. airlines have generally opposed making any concessions unless European countries reciprocate by opening their markets to American carriers...