Word: vacuums
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Publishing abhors a vacuum, and 2001 has been unfolding around a doozy of emptiness. Here is a vast new worldwide audience of readers galvanized by J.K. Rowling's Harry Potter novels, and no new Harry Potter installment will appear this year to slake the pent-up cravings of the boy wizard's devotees. Millions of people bereft! What's worse, many more millions of dollars unspent at bookstores...
...audience. The music is already excellent. Heller reminds the cast to keep up their energy and think about the emotions of their characters to make everything flow realistically. The Mainstage is a large space, but if actors are solid in their roles, they can emote and fill the vacuum with their presence. Heller states that the audience shouldn’t notice good directing; all movements should be entirely natural because they occur with a purpose...
...international exposure has been limited. But Felix Quinn, who opened Britain's first Kinkade gallery nearly two years ago, believes they are entirely justified. With nearly $1 million in turnover during his initial year in business, he more than doubled his financial target. A former door-to-door vacuum cleaner salesman, Quinn discovered Kinkade's art during a 1998 visit to San Diego. He purchased a few pieces for his own collection and was soon hooked. "Once you have a piece and you make that commitment, you want another one," he explains. "Art is based on that." Quinn does...
...Vacuum Tubes to Nanotubes...
...looked like a bad hostage standoff, the cheap fare of Southern California TV, was about to be played out in the Balkans. All day on Saturday, Milosevic and his minions remained squirreled away as the government formulated a plan and as TV cameras watched from a distance. In that vacuum, events spilled easily into farce. Loyalists, mostly elderly socialists for whom Milosevic represents patriotic Serbian ideals, built themselves a bonfire to ward off the chill, scrawling the names of their imagined enemies--Solana (Javier, the NATO Secretary-General), Klark (Wesley Clark, the retired U.S. general) and Monika (Lewinsky, presumably...