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...first broad-based success came with his Ghost Opera, written for the Kronos Quartet in 1994 (and newly available on a Nonesuch CD), in which a Bach prelude, a Chinese folk song, the chanting of monks and the words of Shakespeare are woven into a haunting musical tapestry. Since then Tan has completed his first Hollywood assignment (a hard-edged, jazz-tinged score for Denzel Washington's next movie, Fallen, due later this year) and signed an exclusive recording contract with Sony Classical. Slated for release in October is Marco Polo: An Opera Within an Opera, a work whose...
...book Orders to Kill: The Truth Behind the Murder of Martin Luther King, Pepper delivers a turgid blend of proved fact, hearsay and wild speculation. He claims that Ray was merely a fall guy in an intricate plot woven by U.S. Army intelligence units in which dozens, maybe even hundreds, of Mafia dons, government agents, white racists and small-time crooks were involved. He writes that he pieced together evidence of this vast conspiracy during a courageous 18-year investigation that ranged over several continents. But some of his most unsettling charges were lifted straight out of newspaper stories, then...
...woven of two strands, one of them boldly colored, the other rather gray and recessive. Besides Scissorhands, the first skein includes Ed Wood, Depp's serenely obsessive portrait of the grade-Z moviemaker and cross-dresser with a special affection for angora sweaters; Don Juan De Marco, where he plays a schizophrenic who escapes from dismal reality by impersonating, with sinuous delicacy, an enviably proficient Latin lover; and Benny & Joon, in which he's an illiterate and nearly speechless waif with a genius for mime. What is perhaps most striking about these characterizations is their fundamental sobriety, disciplined intensity...
...city was in the throes of the nation's tremendous expansion as an industrial power. Similarly, in 1946, the city celebrated its role as an "industrial powerhouse" that played its part in America's triumph in the war. At that time, major industrial firms like Boston Woven Hose, Simplex Wire & Cable, Irving & Casson Furniture and the National Casket Co. employed thousands of industrial workers and sponsored most of the 1946 parade's floats...
...city was in the throes of the nation's tremendous expansion as an industrial power. Similarly, in 1946, the city celebrated its role as an "industrial powerhouse" that played its part in America's triumph in the war. At that time, major industrial firms like Boston Woven Hose, Simplex Wire & Cable, Irving & Casson Furniture and the National Casket Co. employed thousands of industrial workers and sponsored most of the 1946 parade's floats...