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...well prove controversial, since some of the films depict stridently anti-American attitudes. Artists in the third category are those trying to influence future events. The Oxford Research Group, a British pacifist think tank, is to mount a series of performances around Sept. 11 at the Royal Opera House's Linbury Studio. Music by Chloë Goodchild, who was flying over New York near the time of the attacks, will alternate with poetry readings and speeches from those who have renounced violence. "The arts," says the organization's founder Scilla Elworthy, "can bring the heart...
DIED. JOSHUA RYAN EVANS, 20, 3-ft. 2-in. actor who played Timmy, a doll that miraculously came to life, on the NBC soap opera Passions; during heart surgery; in San Diego. Born with a rare disease that stunted his heart, Evans also had roles on Ally McBeal and in Dr. Seuss's How the Grinch Stole Christmas...
...rose in Germany. The Elbe River reached a historic high, sending thousands of people fleeing from their homes in the southeastern German city of Dresden. While emergency services concentrated on evacuating residents from the danger zone, authorities also worked furiously to minimize damage at the city's historic Semper Opera House and Zwinger Gallery, with its great art collection. Across southeastern Germany, floods have forced more than 30,000 people from their homes and killed 11. RUSSIA Aid Worker Seized A Dutch employee of the international medical aid group Médecins Sans Frontières was abducted...
...more ambitious. In a magical realist style drawn from M?rquez, she weaves together an incredible range of historical and literary material, including Chinese myths, Singaporean folktales, the Cultural Revolution, Catholic theology and French existentialism. In this intellectually challenging tapestry are allusions to Borges meshed with Chinese opera, and characters who ride on tiger-shaped clouds mixed up with scholars who discuss Milan Kundera. If the new Asia defines itself by a creative fusion of Eastern and Western influences, then readers may find in Playing Madame Mao the definitive new Asian literary novel...
...blonde-tressed voluptua with dimensions not unlike Etruscan sculpture." And then, still not flagging 1163 pages into the opus, he unfurls this description of cheesecake model Letha Weapons and her 36H bra: "Big boobs bolstered by a breast hammock based on the principle that made the Sydney Opera House feasible...