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...back with a new book, Bruce Springsteen’s America: The People Listening, a Poet Singing. Dr. Coles describes the effect of Springsteen’s music on his audience while demonstrating why Springsteen deserves a place among America’s greatest literary talents, including Walt Whitman, William Carlos Williams, Dorothea Lange and Walker Percy, specifically focusing on their commonality of inspiration: America’s common people. In Coles’ interpretation, Springsteen embodies American culture and engages it, shaping a distinct version of American life. This study comes on the heels of such best...
...city devoted to spectacle, Los Angeles doesn't have many places where you can just sit around and take things in. The Walt Disney Concert Hall, Frank Gehry's magnificent new building, is located across the street from a big multilevel parking lot. That's a very Los Angeles place to be, of course, but not a great place to be seen from. Gehry's other masterpiece, the Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao, Spain, stretches out along the Nervion River, across from any number of cafes, where you can kick back and enjoy how it reclines along the water like Cleopatra...
...began in 1987, when Lillian Disney, Walt's widow, provided a surprise gift of $50 million to build a new home for the Los Angeles Philharmonic, which for years had been unhappily stashed in the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion, a slab of '60s-style bureaucratic neoclassicism with mediocre acoustics. The following year Gehry won the competition to design the new hall. At the time--a decade before the debut at Bilbao--Gehry was best known as the man who made chain link and plywood into respectable building materials. Lillian, who was nearing 90 and whose taste ran to brick and thatched...
Osamu Tezuka (1928-1989), a former M.D., more or less invented Japanese comics - AKA manga - during the 1950s. Part D.W. Griffith and part Walt Disney, he is revered in Japan and throughout Asia but only recently has his work been appearing in quantity in the United States. His most famous creation, "Astro Boy," a series about a powerful robot who looks like a boy, has been reprinted by Dark Horse (see the TIME.comix review.) "The Phoenix Saga," a multi-volume series considered his life's work has properly begun to appear here courtesy of Viz. Now Vertical...
...Walt E. Hunter ’04, president of the Harvard Advocate, which sponsored the reading, says Revell is unique because “his poetry is deeply influenced by his understanding and love of musical form...