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...with Southwestern blue cornmeal tortillas, Tex-Mex refried beans and California's baby vegetables and grill-scarred swordfish? Then consider traveling north by northwest to Seattle, where yet another new American regional cuisine is bubbling along. Having simmered slowly over the past eight or nine years, this vibrant, young-spirited cooking is now beginning to achieve finish and form. Whether dubbed Northwestern (because of its almost religious dedication to local products) or Pacific Rim (because it draws inspiration from both Asian and West Coast shore communities), this cuisine is well sauced with pride and heavily seasoned with sincerity...
Aladar Marberger's Manhattan apartment is a gallery of joy and pain, limned in oil, tempera, charcoal and fresco. In most of the likenesses, an insouciant, vibrant personality shines through, but in a few there is the kind of tension that results from great suffering. These are the portraits of an AIDS survivor, sketched and painted by Marberger's friends since it was confirmed , that he had the disease. They are a tribute to a man who will not quit. When Marberger learned in 1985 that he had Kaposi's sarcoma, a rare form of skin cancer that is sometimes...
...after 70 a person stops musing about all petty things. But the head does not know how old it is. It remains young and full of the same foolishness as at 20." The prospect of such protracted turmoil may not please everyone, but the news is conveyed in these vibrant stories with unforgettable, irresistible energy...
...course, there is Shchedrin, favored to succeed Khrennikov someday as a culture czar, who was represented by his new opera Dead Souls. A licensed radical who sacrificed his genuine talent for the status of a pampered house pet, Shchedrin once wrote sparklers like the Carmen Suite, a vibrant 1967 gloss on Bizet that will be danced later this month by his wife Ballerina Maya Plisetskaya. Now, perhaps metaphorically, he writes Dead Souls...
Though the plot may be trite, the vibrant cast turns this sitcom-like melodrama into an hour's worth of truly enjoyable entertainment. In organizing Project Space 6, Weiner and Hanning wanted to inject some raw and new energy into Harvard theater. They did this by enlisting the talents of students who have had little or no dramatic experience. Providing the actors with a skeletal script, Weiner and Hanning let the performers project themselves into their characters, bringing a ring of authenticity to their roles...