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Musical storytelling gets no better than this tragic tale of lovers divided by the end of the Vietnam war and, more deeply, by the economic gulf between the U.S. and the Third World. As a Vietnamese hustler and would-be American, Britain's Jonathan Pryce gave the performance of the year in a reprise of his West End triumph...
Musical storytelling gets no better than this tragic tale of lovers divided by the end of the Vietnam war and, more deeply, by the economic gulf between the U.S. and the Third World. As a Vietnamese hustler and would-be American, Britain's Jonathan Pryce gave the performance of the year in a reprise of his West End triumph...
...walks away and lives on for years? The event is repeated every day on medical assembly lines around the world. What is surgical plumbing today would have been a biblical masterpiece of wonder. Even commonplace achievements of technology, like telephones, fax machines, television, communications satellites and computers, suffuse the earth with a sort of preternatural glow. The people of the industrialized world have become consumers of secularized miracles -- and the people of the Third World yearn for such products with a kind of religious ardor. Show a developing Polaroid picture to a man in a remote forest of Africa...
...supernatural has taken a thousand routes into the ordinary world. Sometimes the deed is the miracle. A candidate to become a Manchu shaman might put on a miraculous performance by cutting nine holes in the ice in winter -- then diving into the first hole, emerging from the second hole, diving into the third and so on. Survival yields a shaman...
...reincarnation of Hitler's Third Reich, which, in a new march to conquest, is trying to break up Yugoslavia. "The main problem with recognition," said Wolfgang Biermann, a foreign policy analyst for the Social Democrats in Bonn, "is that it is the Germans who are pushing it. Considering Germany's history in Yugoslavia, the Serbs are convinced that Germany is splitting up their state again. That escalates the conflict." In a number of capitals there was discomfort with the appearance of Germany again supporting Croatian independence, as the Nazis backed fascist Croatia during World...