Month: September 2005

Film Commentary: The Cinema of Japanese Mikio Naruse — Pitfalls of Desire

September 28, 2005
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By Betsy Sherman The films of the neglected Japanese master Mikio Naruse spotlight the plight of women on the margins of society. “Mikio Naruse: A Centennial Tribute” will be screened from Sept. 28 through Oct. 30, 2005 at the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, MA and from Sept. 30 through Oct. 10, 2005 at…

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Fuse Dance Feature: Instants of Combustion

September 20, 2005
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Dance photography was born in the search to chronicle the dancer’s ephemeral art. It has grown up to offer a different, wholly independent, form of permanent performance

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Book Review: Don’t Fear the Cyborg

September 15, 2005
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An engaging new memoir explores how the fusion of man and machine is about maintaining humanity, not creating monsters.

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Rock Review: The Music Never Stopped

September 13, 2005
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With the arrival of a new biography and DVD, guitarist Jimi Hendrix may have finally gotten his due, the pieces of his puzzle finally assembled, with just enough mystery left over for the ages. “Room Full of Mirrors: A Biography of Jimi Hendrix” by Charles R. Cross. (Hyperion); “Jimi Hendrix Live at Woodstock [The Deluxe…

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Sympathy for a Terrorist?

September 12, 2005
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Salman Rushdie’s latest novel wants readers to fall in love with — or at least feel sympathy for — an Islamic militant.

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Cuban Dancers, Si

September 1, 2005
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By Debra Cash Blame Alicia Alonso for reinforcing her own senseless Cuban embargo. The famed (and literally blind) dramatic ballerina who is the fountainhead of Cuban ballet and an official Friend of Fidel seems to have felt that although she made her own performing career in the United States the Cuban “dance drain” of ballet…

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