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...current Aldeburgh Festival, Britten's Death in Venice is a spare, cerebral music drama that remains faithful to Mann's image-laden tale of frustrated pederasty. Along with Librettist Myfanwy Piper, he has succeeded in drawing a sense of intense theatrical conflict from Mann's static interior monologue...
...about to accept. If the Fall is a tragedy, Collier feels, as petulantly as the veriest college sophomore, then God is to blame. He was running the show, wasn't he? Even more fashionably, Collier looks on the Fall of Man as a liberation -from timeless, static perfection into the rich, brothy, changeful world of guilt and death, of love and squalor...
...transformed into an intense, sweet experience, amenable to being turned on or off at will. "It was like learning to walk," he said. "It improves one's functioning--the mind is more harmonious, you're never confused or thinking two things at the same time. There's no mental static. You have complete control...
...nutrient ingredients are expensive. For another, the bacteria do their work so well that tanks would not have to be washed and scraped when ships put in for periodic repairs. This is especially important because the scrubbing is done with high-pressure hoses; the nozzles sometimes develop charges of static electricity that can ignite oil fumes lingering in the tanks. Moreover, Rosenberg believes that his bugs may turn even the ballast water into profit. He figures that after the bacteria have cleaned the tanks in a 200,000-ton supertanker, the ballast could yield some 200 tons of dewaxed...
...superstate, the Tausendjahrige Reich, or Thousand-Year Reich, was derived from prophetic myths about the Christian millennium: a time when, after a cosmic battle between Christ and Antichrist, the forces of evil are locked away forever, the dialectic of history is abolished, and a reign of permanent, static harmony prevails over the earth. So it happens that who ever plays Hitler in a movie, or how well, is not of much more than aesthetic consequence - no more, say, than the comparisons between one Siegfried and another. The role is always greater than its actors, and its nightmarish content has become...