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There's no doubt that the show is a tour de force, for performer and designers alike. Amblad is the only thing to look at for the whole length of the show, and it takes a lot of nerve to do what he is called upon to do. At one point, he twitches his mouth in sync with a train whistle; at another, he pretends to be electrocuted as we hear a loud buzz; towards the end, he actually bangs his head and face repeatedly into the seat of his chair, and he does it hard, so that...
...mainly the image of Liszt as music's first international superstar, and one of the Romantic Century's great Don Juans, that remains fixed in our collective memory: a slim, strikingly handsome six-footer with a flowing mane of shoulder-length hair, a piano conjurer able to summon near orchestral effects and rouse audiences to such frenzied emotional states that the poet Heinrich Heine coined the term "Lisztomania." "I think I laughed--laughed like an idiot" is how Edvard Grieg described his ecstatic reaction to Liszt's playing. George Eliot's recorded impressions of Liszt come very close to swooning...
...Beckett (1906-89) would have been 90 this year, and to celebrate his indelible mark on the modern spirit, the Gate Theatre of Dublin came to New York City's Lincoln Center with productions of all 19 works he wrote for the stage, from the full-length Waiting for Godot, Endgame and Happy Days to the 40-second Breath. (Another 13 pieces were composed for radio, TV or film...
...when we saw the pictures from Russell, Kansas, we decided to give the Republican earthlings their moment in the sun, so to speak. But in the end, the choice was mainly symbolic. Readers get both cover-length packages in this week's magazine. As we continue a year of covering down-to-earth politics with a passion, we'll likewise over the coming months (and years and decades) keep our curious eyes on the doings of any other cohabitants of the cosmos. It's all part of our own temporal mission to tell the tales and synthesize the complexities...
Another six months would give the community time to receive assurances from Harvard about issues ranging from length of leases to whether the University would sell condominiums to its affiliates...