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That is what Morris' short fiction consistently delivers. For every sad event there is a countervailing and arresting image: of swallows on a Spanish mountaintop ("Their flight on the sky was like fine scratches on film"); of a vista in Boise, Idaho ("My aunt's couch faced the door, which stood open, the view given a sepia tone by the rusted screen"). The author offers glimpses of strange lives and then, with wisdom and art, makes them clear and permanent...
...Francisco. But with no false modesty, he chose to call it New American Classics (Harper & Row; $25). Translation: the bizarre California-style dishes Tower created for his trendy restaurants. There is a windy self-congratulatory text, a double-page spread reproducing the author's signature and some superfluous vista photographs a la Falcon Crest. Inevitably, there are many of the California cliches -- hot goat cheese, cold pasta and dangerously raw salmon. Nevertheless, this erratic chef has a talent for simple dishes, among them lobster gazpacho, warm duck salad with turnip pancake, chopped lamb steak au poivre, T-bone steak cowboy...
...does not make just "movies" for its theme parks. Puny two-dimensional shadows projected on a flat screen would not do for the entertainment empire built on Uncle Walt's idea for a better mousetrap. At Disneyland in Anaheim, Calif., and at Walt Disney World in Lake Buena Vista, Fla., visitors sit in round theaters and are treated to postcard-panorama film tours of China and France through the technocraft of Circle-Vision 360. The 100 small panels that make up the huge screen in the Energy Pavilion at Disney World's Epcot Center rotate in sync, creating gorgeous sculptured...
...London production's metaphoric intentions are evident the moment the audience sees the backdrop. A lurid, scrawled red line divides a vista of white-capped mountains and a blue sky with clouds from a rough black collage below, inset with garbage cans, pails, tires and a metal ladder -- the dregs beneath the American Dream. Superimposed are slides announcing the year as the play moves forward from the Crash into World War II and briefly into 1968 and beyond. The cast of 19 enact dozens of the dispossessed, from a desperate Southern sheriff no longer receiving a paycheck to college boys...
...arranged for locations with the Navy, Coast Guard and White House, plus the states of New York and New Jersey. The planning paid off. From the New Jersey side of the harbor, Ted Thai, who immigrated to the U.S. from Viet Nam in 1973, snapped the four-page fireworks vista on Friday night. Photographer Neil Leifer was on Governors Island for the cover photo, taken after the torch- lighting ceremony Thursday. He caught the Operation Sail scene the following morning from a helicopter. A sea-land relay team rushed all the film from the harbor to the photo lab. Deputy...