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...says Gibson, as a Maya dialogue coach from a small town in the Yucatan stands behind his director's chair, he's hoping Apocalypto, set for release this summer, will make Maya language and history as "cool again" as The Passion of the Christ made The New Testament. Without the religious controversies that swirled around that film, of course. But even if Gibson fails to make Maya hip, he's almost certain to make some unknown actors very famous...
...came to central Mexico, which was then possibly the most heavily populated place on earth, ruled by this very aggressive, rapidly expanding empire. That's what's normally called the Aztecs. There were all of these other societies. There were these large Mayan states that were basically in the Yucatan...Soon after that, [the explorers] went to Peru, and there was the Inca Empire, which stretched across a distance that if you put it on the map of Europe, would go from Stockholm to Cairo. It really was an enormous enterprise, possibly the world's biggest state at that time...
Sugary white sand gleams under the bright Yucatan sun, aquamarine water teems with tropical fish and lazy sea turtles, cold Mexican beer beckons beneath the shady thatch of palapas--it's hard to imagine a sweeter spot than Akumal, Mexico, to contemplate the joys of being alive. And that was precisely the agenda when three leading psychologists gathered in this Mexican paradise to plot a new direction for psychology...
...free, poetic side, and also the very practical, analytical side." Once inside, the visitor is thrust before the architect's very eyes. As a young graduate from Copenhagen's Royal Academy of Arts, Utzon zoomed his home-movie lens on ancient world monuments, from the Mayan temples of Yucatan, to Chinese pagodas and Iranian mosques. Watching such footage in the show, one can see the steps of the Opera House forming, and its ceramic shells glittering in Utzon's mind...
...theatres along the western boardwalk. To integrate them better with the harbor, Utzon and his architects have turned once more to the Mayan temples of his youthful travels. Their $A6 million colonnade, due to open late next year, has been inspired by the Court of a Thousand Columns at Yucatan. In the meantime, we have the modest and lovely Utzon Room, which reveals his original vaulted ceiling, the bare bones of his genius. The room has also been designed to be viewed from outside, and at night Utzon's 14-m tapestry, inspired by Bach's Hamburg Symphonies, reads like...