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DIED. Barbara Epstein, 77, literary lion who as a founder and co-editor of the New York Review of Books worked with--and in many cases, befriended--writers such as Joyce Carol Oates, Desmond Tutu, V??clav Havel and Alison Lurie; in New York City. Epstein was a junior editor at Doubleday when she helped produce Anne Frank's Diary of a Young Girl in 1952. During a 1963 newspaper strike, she helped launch the Review with her then husband Jason Epstein and shared, with Robert Silvers, responsibility of editing it for the next 43 years. Her sharp pencil...
...Still, he signed on. Then he and musical supervisor Christopher Nightingale chose to break with the Broadway songwriting style and go for an ethereal, world-music sound. Two sounds, in fact: one from A.R. Rahman, the best-selling composer of Indian musical films; the other from the Finnish group V??rttin?...
Despite sashaying between political drama and action film, “V?? has its moments of humor and subtlety. In one of the opening scenes, V draws attention to the “paradox of asking a masked man who he is.” The repeated use of the jazz standard, “Cry Me a River,” represented an understated metaphor for political subversion that resonated throughout the film as V struggles towards his goal of liberating the English public...
...influx. In contrast to the U.S., where training is haphazard except at a few top companies, many Latin countries have excellent ballet schools, often subsidized by the government, where youngsters are put through a rigorous classical regimen. Spain boasts a fine school run by former Maurice Bjart dancer V??ctor Ullate. Argentina has another, at the century-old Teatro Coln in Buenos Aires. But the most celebrated and influential school in the Latin world is the one attached to Cuba's National Ballet, supported by Castro since 1959 and presided over by the indomitable Alonso...
...same type of drive can be seen in countries like Uruguay and Chile. In the former, President Tabaré V??zquez epitomizes a left respectful of institutions and eager to develop with help from foreign markets. In the historically socially conservative latter, Michelle Bachelet, a socialist single-mother was elected President a month ago. Since 1990, the socialist Concentración coalition has been in power, working hard to come to terms with the political crimes and economic inequalities of Augusto Pinochet’s dictatorship...