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...final section of the show is a rock ballet, “Warning This May Cause,” choreographed by a professional choreographer Derrick Sellers, and complete with a light show and music by Björk. The frantic, almost violent tone of the ballet is a stark contrast to the fluidity of the previous piece. When the dancers open their mouths, there is almost a bestial quality to them; when they assault the stage with baseball bats, they assault the senses of an audience not used to movements so powerful and abrupt. This piece, the most challenging...
Bush's aides sputter at the suggestion that he has been transformed by Sept. 11. "It's not like his IQ rose 50 points just because the World Trade Center was attacked," says an annoyed adviser. But the change in the man and his policies is too stark to deny. The President who wanted to go it alone in the world--and had nothing but disdain for "nation building"--now says "we should not simply leave after a military objective has been achieved," and sees a role for the U.N. in "the stabilization of" a new government in postwar Afghanistan...
...Afghanistan faces stark challenges. Though rich in natural gas, minerals and precious stones, it has been living from hand to mouth, unable to capitalize on those resources because of the disruptions of decades of war. The illiteracy rate among adults is 64%. A quarter of Afghan children die before age five. Afghans have one of the world's lowest per-person caloric intakes (an average of 1,500 calories daily) and one of the highest rates of land-mine-related amputees (1 out of 273 people). Three years of drought on top of 22 years of war have produced widespread...
...cocoa, into the eighth-largest in the world. DIED. HERBERT ROSS, 74, director, producer and choreographer; in New York City. Ross cemented his reputation as a Broadway directing talent while still in his twenties before moving to Hollywood, where he often collaborated with writer Neil Simon and producer Ray Stark, churning out hit films such as The Sunshine Boys (1975), The Turning Point (1977) and Steel Magnolias (1989). AWARDED. To the U.N. and its Secretary-General, KOFI ANNAN, 63, the Nobel Peace Prize in recognition of their work for "a better organized and more peaceful world"; in Oslo. Annan...
...remains sanitized until all hell breaks loose. That the brothers are gifted natural filmmakers is evidenced as when the first victim succumbs in a murky alleyway, and all we see is a gleaming silver knife flashing out of the gloom. The shot’s effectiveness lies in the stark contrast between light and dark, inverting a symbol by making a gleaming, bright element an instrument of death. The fact that the action remains largely unseen and the physical effect plays out in our minds only underscores revulsion. However, in most other instances, the brothers resort to heavy-handed imagery...