Word: twistings
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...Darling Harbour and the revamped wharf district of Woolloomooloo?have become home to a plethora of fashionable new dining options. Older suburbs have also benefited from a new wave of establishments providing what Australian restaurateurs are fast winning an international reputation for: fantastically fresh food prepared with a cosmopolitan twist. Heading Down Under? Impress clients or friends by making reservations at any of these restaurants du jour...
...Darling Harbour and the revamped wharf district of Woolloomooloo - have become home to a plethora of fashionable new dining options. Older suburbs have also benefited from a new wave of establishments providing what Australian restaurateurs are fast winning an international reputation for: fantastically fresh food prepared with a cosmopolitan twist. Heading Down Under? Impress clients or friends by making reservations at any of these restaurants du jour: CHERRIJAM The chandelier-lit, Moroccan-style interior of this bar and supper club, tel: (61-2) 9363 0555, makes it good for intimate get-togethers and flamboyant parties alike, while the Double...
...prelude to Mahler's Ninth. In architectural terms, that's a little like adding a pyramid to the Louvre. For the piece, Lim extrapolates an Arabic inflection she detects in Mahler's expansive final symphony - "it's like the colors of that fabulous world," she says, "but a different twist - looking at it sideways." For her next SSO work in 2006, Lim hopes to reconfigure the orchestra's sound with a didgeridoo. "That has been one of my projects as a composer," she says, "to have that cross-fertilization between different cultures of music...
...make a better world. The Name of the Game, from 2001 (see TIME.comix review), cast a family melodrama in the little-seen world of turn-of-the-century Old Money New York Jews who live in town houses. His 2003 book, Fagin the Jew, took Dickens' famous Oliver Twist character and invented a fuller biography for the character, with the intention of dispelling one of literature's most potent defamatory stereotypes. When I interviewed Eisner about Fagin he described the book as a "polemic." In his acknowledgments to The Plot he uses the word again, but this time...
...both a stable truth and an unsettling one that our lives loop and twist from age to age. The baby toddles into childhood, the child erupts into a teen, then a woman, who by the time she has passed 40 is long overdue to shed her skin again. That shedding can be traumatic, treacherous, born of sorrow or stress; but to hear the prophets of personal reinvention tell it, it may also be an unexpected gift. With that endearing sense of discovery that baby boomers bring to the most enduring experiences - like growing up or finding God or burning...