| Oppenheimer comes to the opera
In a rehearsal room backstage at Lyric Opera of Chicago, the singers and dancers spread across a bare stage, Peter Sellars is orchestrating his vision of the dawn of the nuclear era.
"Keep the paranoia level very high," the director tells the performers playing the scientists and military personnel counting down the minutes to the first test explosion of an atomic bomb. A rehearsal pianist attacks the swirling chords of composer John Adams' score as Robert Spano conducts.
Sporty in his patterned polyester shirt, beaded necklace and scruffy jeans, Sellars watches intently as the dancers creep forward and backward in sync with the shifting meters. "Struggle through the air as if it's a toxic cloud," he shouts over the music.
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Jobless youths clash with cops, many hurt
In February this year, District and Sessions judge M.M.S. Bedi held that the charges under the TADA Act were not maintainable. The police had alleged that Bhullar, along with others, had hatched the conspiracy at the residence of Partap Singh and Gursharan Kaur in SAS Nagar. Pratap Singh and Gursharan Kaur were released by the court on bail. A former engineering professor, Bhullar already faces the death penalty awarded by the Delhi High Court and confirmed by the Supreme Court in the 1993 Delhi bomb blast case, in which the then Indian Youth Congress leader M.S. Bitta was gravely injured. .
Quest for darkness
"DON'T ACT LIKE BAIT," warns Chad Moore, only half-joking. As we hurry down a dark, quiet path toward the edge of Bryce Canyon, we're living on mountain lion time, and hoping the cats will grant us an uneventful evening. Moore, a pale, wiry 37-year-old, is a leader of the National Park Service Night Sky Team, and he's used to unusual hours. He and his colleagues travel to parks around the country, scaling peaks and rooftops to measure the depth of darkness. When Moore and I reach the edge of the canyon - using only small red flashlights for better night vision - the sky is powdered with stars, and darkness pools around us. The sculpted rim of the canyon, in south-central Utah, forms a high, cold ridge between the sparsely populated Colorado Plateau and the Great Basin, but the darkness here isn't complete.
CBI files chargesheet
This film is really about river dolphins and how endangered they are today. We have concentrated on Assam and how over-fishing is depleting the number of fish,� says Sanjoy Hazarika about the documentary, titled: �Children of the River: The Xihus of Assam.� The film was screened at the India International Center on Thursday. Amitesh�s still horses
New Delhi, November 17
In a short span of time, Amitesh Verma has carved a niche for himself through the intricate and detailed portrayal of animal and human anatomy. Inter-university debate on environment held
New Delhi, November 17
Students from Delhi University and 34 other universities spread across the country took part in a two-day inter-university debate competition 2007, on �Population and Environment� recently.
Richard Gere on Inside The Actors Studio with James Lipton on PIX
MUMBAI: Humanitarian and actor, Richard Gere was born on August 31, 1949, in Philadelphia. The second of five children, Richard started early as a musician, playing a number of instruments in high school and writing music for high school productions. He left college after two years to pursue acting, landing a lead role in the London production of the rock musical "Grease" in 1973. Onscreen, he had a few roles, and gained recognition in Looking for Mr. Goodbar (1977). Off-screen, he spent the year 1978 meeting Tibetans when he traveled to Nepal, where he spoke to many monks and lamas and was first influenced by Buddhism. Returning to the US, on Broadway he portrayed a concentration-camp prisoner in "Bent," for which he received the 1980 Theatre World Award. Back in Hollywood, he played the title role in American Gigolo (1980), thus establishing himself as a major star; this status was reaffirmed by An Officer and a Gentleman (1982).
Three three-ways, one happy ending
When everyone else leaves for karaoke, I stay behind to help clean up the place. We finish, and I comment about how I should probably head home and let them have the bed. She says that we slept three across last night, and there's no reason we can't do it again. So I borrow some pyjama bottoms from her, get set up on the opposite edge of the bed from the passed-out friend, and am told to scoot into the middle by my girlfriend when she gets in bed. All is well, I tell her I love her, and we go to sleep. The next morning (that is, this morning), however, I wake up spooning the new girl, with my girlfriend nowhere to be seen. I go into the other room to find her washing dishes and notice something seems a little bit off. She says she's going for a jog, changes clothes, and takes off, leaving the two of us behind.
Arts center could help revitalize downtown Minot
Downtown Minot�s revitalization efforts got a boost last week with an announcement that Artspace plans to build at the corner of Main Street and Central Avenue.
Artspace of Minneapolis selected land now being used for parking on which to build a new residential and commercial center for artists.
George Slanger, president of the Downtown Business and Professional Association, said Artspace will be a good fit for downtown.
�The downtown association certainly regards this as a very exciting and positive development,� he said. �For us, it�s a kind of capstone of what has been a very exciting year for us.�
The downtown association beefed up its fall festival and Christmas open house and held a successful, first-time wine walk, Slanger said.
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