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...Maybe I should have a little tape recorder with me, Twin Peaks style" said Litt, who flew in from California on Thursday night. "On one hand I feel pretty nerdy, but on the other hand, my parents aren't with...
Which proves the twin tenets that feed Hollywood's glory and gloom: 1) there is such a thing as star power; 2) there is no such thing as guaranteed star power...
Consider, for a moment, these twin signs of our scrambled times...
However these works are received by American audiences, they will be shadowed by the twin demons that dog the Bolshoi back home, budget crises and hostile critics. "There is a fierce struggle going on at all levels of the Soviet government, and this struggle is mirrored in every cultural institution, and particularly in the Bolshoi, the jewel in the Soviet crown," says Harlow Robinson, a professor of Slavic languages and literature at the State University of New York at Albany, a biographer of Prokofiev and a frequent visitor to the Bolshoi. "Because they previously were supported entirely by subsidy, they...
...national icons have received a dramatic reworking. Gone, or going fast, is the concept of the melting pot, of the U.S. as the paramount place in the world where people came to shed their past in order to forge their future. Gone too is the emphasis on the twin ideals that form the basis of the American experiment: that rights reside in the individual rather than with social or ethnic classes and that all who come to these shores can be assimilated by an open society that transforms disparate peoples into Americans. Instead there is a new paradigm that emphasizes...