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...Dobby still talks like Jar Jar Binks.) She has shed the clumsy devices--the impostors and the secret identities--that marred the shape of some of the earlier books. Her prose, always a serviceable, unshowy instrument, is stronger and more confident, and she has become a virtuoso plotter, a master at snappy pacing, able to stun and surprise at will...
...escapist record," says lead singer Conor Deasy. "Our minds kept wandering to these places in California. But it wasn't until we heard the songs together that we realized how much we'd tapped into that sound. This is how the songs came naturally, there was no master plan." No wonder So Much for the City has the sunny, chiming sound of lucky breaks and happy coincidences. Like the time last year when, after three years of being ignored by record companies, the Thrills' demo tape suddenly sparked a bidding frenzy that led them to Virgin Records. Or the time...
...African American. He isn't above political opportunism of the basest sort - he has changed his position on free trade to suit Iowa's protectionist labor skates, and a cynic might argue that his position on Iraq was a clever response to a market void. But Dean is a master of the snappy formulation. He tells audiences, for example, that the President's tax cuts will "raise local property taxes and reduce services." This has the virtue of being accurate - there will be less money to cities and towns - and accessible...
...which she beat out both Libeskind and Bernard Tschumi--Hadid has at last been getting jobs of a size that match her gifts, to say nothing of her press. There's another contemporary art center in Rome, offices and a factory for BMW in Leipzig, Germany, and a master plan for an enormous science city in Singapore. Her next American project is an art center near the base of Frank Lloyd Wright's Price Tower in Bartlesville, Okla...
...reviews and full-house crowds. Industry-bible Variety magazine declared: "London stages a big comeback - a moribund theater climate has turned itself around." Stewart, best known as an X-Man and sometime Star Trekker, was last seen in the West End 17 years ago, but his performance in The Master Builder, Ibsen's claustrophobic study of obsession and paranoia, has won adulatory reviews. After the first preview at the Albery Theatre, the actor was plainly exhausted as he sipped champagne in his dressing room. "It's so draining," he exclaimed, in mock agony, "How can I do this...