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...piano stands alone on an empty swath of New Zealand beach while behind it a towering wall of sea waves threaten to obliterate it. That singularly haunting image is at the core of Jane Campion's new film "The Piano." The hoary proverb which states that a picture is worth a thousand words could not be more appropriate. The value of silence, of nonverbal communication, is essential to the theme of Campion's film, which depicts a world in which images and music count as much as words...
...Piano" begins, Ada McGrath (Oscar winner Holly Hunter) has become the mail-order bride of Alistair Stewart (Sam Neill), a farmer in the remote bush of nineteenth century New Zealand whom she has never met. Together with her nine-year-old daughter Flora (Academy Award winner Anna Paquin) and her piano, Ada makes the long voyage by sea from Scotland to New Zealand. When Stuart arrives to meet her, he refuses to transport her piano to their house, leaving it on the beach...
...Peru, Angola, Cameroon, and especially Botswana -- all seven of that country's stocks. Botswana has a stable currency, prosperous mines, rich natural resources, a 10% growth rate and no tribal conflicts to speak of, and the stock exchange is one desk in a banker's office. He likes New Zealand, which has cheap stocks and is starting to emerge from 10 years of depression. He likes China, with its long tradition of trading and haggling, where the traders and hagglers are finally loosed from their communist yoke. Last week he gave me his latest favorites: Ghana, Zimbabwe and Iran...
...dean said he plans to remain at Harvard in a capacity that leaves him time to pursue "personal interests." He has also said he'd like to travel to Australia, New Zealand or Africa and to spend more time at his Maine vacation home...
...meantime, regards the world contentedly from the cover of a magazine called Leaders, which flatters CEOS with softball interviews. (Sample question: "You see opportunities where others may not see them?" Hurwitz's reply: "Yes.") He tells Leaders that his lumber people are looking into operations in New Zealand, South America, Mexico and Russia...