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Windscape to play a range of music from Roaring 20s

By Abraham Mahshie | April 11, 2001

Windscape, an innovative quintet of established woodwind soloists, brings their interpretations of a wide array of 20th century works from the Manhattan School of Music to Spaulding Auditorium tomorrow at 8 p.m. The quintet's play, considered "breathtaking virtuosity" by The Miami Herald, is an ensemble-in-residence at the Manhattan School of Music and has performed a precise and captivating musical treat for audiences across the country.

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'The Old American' is satisfying in its complexity

By Christopher Moore | April 9, 2001

The lithic emblem of New Hampshire, severe yet broadly approving, strikes its profile against the sky, then, staying still while you turn against the mountain, out on the New Hampshire roads far away somewhere.This is our Old Man in the Mountain. In the latest book by Ernest Hebert, professor of English and creative writing, "The Old American" is an Algonkian, son of King Phillip, named Caucus-Meteor. Most of his family recently dead, he had created an migr's community in Canada.

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Big Dance Theater innovative, abstract

By Jennifer Thomas | April 4, 2001

Last night's showing of "A Simple Heart" by Annie Parson and David Lazar's Big Dance Theater was not for the artistically faint of heart. Parson's stage adaptation of Gustave Flaubert's novella by the same name was unorthodox, to say the least.

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'Enemy' is a different war film

By Kathryn Beane | April 2, 2001

The strength of "Enemy at the Gates" lies in its quiet capacity to tell a story. While Jean-Jacques Annaud's ("Seven Years in Tibet") film will not likely go down in the annals of our most celebrated, prestigious war epics, it is precisely this picture's understated nature that lends it a surprising credibility. "Enemy" recounts a typically overlooked (at least from a Western viewpoint), yet significant period in modern world history -- Hitler's invasion of the Soviet Union -- otherwise known as the battle of Stalingrad from 1942-43. Adapted from William Craig's nonfiction account of the siege, "Enemy" opened at this year's Berlin Film Festival to disapproval at the hands of many German critics.

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Follett's space race novel disappoints

By Jeffrey Tanenhaus | April 2, 2001

The date is January 1958, and Explorer I stands impressively on the Cape Canaveral runway. Rocket scientist Luke Lucas lies passed out in the men's room of Union Station with no recollection of how he got there or who he is.

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Will George Lucas ruin film?

By John Teti | March 28, 2001

I'm sick of George Lucas. Not because he's made a mockery of the "Star Wars" series. Not because he's a mediocre director with delusions of greatness.

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Puppeteer to perform at Hop

By Ritika Nandkeolyar | March 1, 2001

Around sunset on the Indonesian island of Java, a busy street corner is turned into a open-air theatre as thousands of people crowd around performers who will use music and shadow puppets to tell the stories of gods and heroes from Hindu myths. These wayang kulit or shadow puppet theater performances last all night, with a dhalang or puppet master directing the intricate dance of shadow across a large back-lit screen.

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'Chocolat' dulls the sweet tooth

By Christopher Moore | February 27, 2001

What's that saying about Freud and chocolate? I don't think there is one. Unfortunately, the eager director of "Chocolat," Lasse Hallstrom, sublimates the clich from his repressed memories as a latter-day Charlie, and so "satisfies" his audience with a sickly-sweet fairy tale of caring, redemption and that eternal decision between Mounds and Almond Joy. From the first caramel bite we get a Wonkaesque morality tale: Vianne (Juliette Binoche) and her well-cast daughter, Anouk (Victoire Thivisol) drift on a north wind, hooded in red capes, into a French hill town, circa 1959, that is more of an illustration than a place people actually live. Their history: setting up shop in the major European cities, then getting shoved out before the bon bons might melt in their hands. Their mission: to open a "chocolaterie" (that's French for chocolate shop) here so as to melt the bittersweet hearts of les paysans et le Comte alike.

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