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...large museum space. So Splendors is installed in the downtown Memphis Cook Convention Center. The 26,000-sq.-ft. facility within the center was built for boat shows, union conventions and the like, but the exhibition's designers have created a temporary museum space befitting the 16th century Sultan Suleyman the Magnificent. The King's home at Graceland can't touch...
Take the Serbs, whose leader, Slobodan Milosevic, is most to blame for the horrors. Serbs remember vividly what happened on a late spring day 603 years ago, June 15, 1389, when Prince Lazar tried to stop the advancing army of the Ottoman sultan Murad I, 150 miles south of Belgrade. Lazar's army was crushed, and Serbia fell under Ottoman rule. That epic defeat has roughly the same significance for Serbs that the destruction of King Solomon's Temple has for Jews...
...production opens with the sound of a blues piano as the three Witches, fortune-telling bar-flies in Williams' production, croon a short trio. The piano music (played adeptly by Peter Sultan), which includes everything from Gershwin to Pachelbel to Nino Rota's theme from The Godfather, continues throughout the play, weaving the scenes together in what is perhaps William's greatest transformative device...
President Bush has won Saudi approval for a possible new U.S.-led military strike against Saddam Hussein. Prince Bandar bin Sultan, Saudi ambassador to the U.S., has passed the word to senior American officials from King Fahd. Intelligence studies have found that Iraq remains a regional threat, with larger stores of biological and chemical weapons than was thought at the end of the war. If Bush decides to act, he will want to finish the job in time to reap election rewards. The Saudis will support air strikes or naval operations, but not another massive gathering of troops on their...
Five Masters of Persian and Indian Painting: Sultan-Muhammad, Mir Sayyid `Ali, Basawan, Payag and the Kotar Mastert--Through March 8. Sackler Museum...