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...shadow of his predecessor Jiang Zemin, by the end of the Party Congress Hu had largely cemented his leadership for the next five years. He had engineered the departure from the Politburo of Zeng Qinghong, a Jiang ally who wielded enormous influence in the party. He had also stage-managed the promotion of several protégés to senior positions in the party's highest councils. And Hu had even managed to have his concept of "scientific development" - a catchphrase for implementing a more socially equitable, sustainable and deliberate approach to China's economic growth in coming years...
...spectacle of Tom Stoppard hoofing it through the theater district on a bum foot would be disconcerting to people who think of the playwright as something of an élitist. Ever since his sensational stage debut in 1967 with Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead--his absurdist riff on a pair of minor characters in Hamlet--Stoppard has become almost a genre unto himself, taking intellectual, often abstruse subject matter and turning it into challenging yet playful drama. His game, frequently, is the oddball juxtaposition: moral philosophy and gymnastics (Jumpers); Fermat's last theorem and Byron's love poetry (Arcadia); James...
Rock 'n' Roll is the first stage work Stoppard has written explicitly about Czechoslovakia, where he was born in 1937 but which he left as a baby when his parents fled the Nazis, moving to Singapore and then India before landing in Bristol, England...
Catching his breath during the opening number of a Broadway musical, Paulus Berensohn says that he heard a disembodied voice pose a question that was to change his life: “This is dancing on a stage, Paulus, but what does it mean to dance in life?” Two weeks later, he found the answer when he saw a woman throwing a pot. “I want to learn that dance,” he said to himself, and in that moment took up the craft of pottery. The metaphysical ties between clay, dance, and creation...
...only Spanish speakers will understand the lyrics of “La Vida...Es Un Ratico,” the true essence of Juanes’s messages is multilingual. This universality, more prominent in this album than any other, is what earns Juanes a place on the world stage...