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Communication between Wahid and Megawati will become vital in the months ahead, as a new Cabinet is chosen and the political odd couple set about governing the country. "Because Gus cannot read documents, the question is who will control the flow of information to him," says Sarwono Kusumaatmadja, a former Cabinet minister. "There will be fierce competition over who is going to whisper in his ear." Or his mobile phone...
...stylised cover art. "Songe" and the impossibly beautiful "Call Waiting" both blend in the stuttering backbeats of 90s R&B, while the inclusion of rapper Black Thought (from the Roots, Philly's famed hip-hop collective) on "Rafiki" makes a great counterpoint to Daulne's scat. Perhaps it's odd that a group that uses its foray into technology so well should decry its dehumanizing effects in their lyrics, but this album is so in the zone, it doesn't matter...
...opening scenes have some odd nuances aside from the after-capture meal. Strangely, the subtitles break for the occasional English sparring between Rauffenstein and Boeldieu. One must assume that these phrases are inserted to emphasize the class difference between the two career officers and the others in the opening scene...
...element of the production that does live up to the naturalism implicit in the script is the set, brilliantly designed by Pete Wilson '99. The odd assortment of knickknacks, broken down furniture, and trash evokes the chaos and turmoil in ways that many of the performances, alas...
...easy walk from the Museum of Fine Arts (MFA) to the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum. But the MFA's frustrating lack of commitment to contemporary art leaves a diffuse network of university galleries and miscellaneous non-profits picking up the slack. Fantastic exhibitions are hidden away in odd corners, most reliably at the Institute of Contemporary Art (ICA), the List Visual Arts Center and the Rose Art Museum. A new sculpture park is in the works at the Univeristy of Massachusetts at Boston, under the very ambitious direction of art historian Paul Tucker. Pieces by Richard Serra, Nancy Holt...