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Cedar Rapids Gazette (Newspaper) - December 28, 1974, Cedar Rapids, Iowa Weather- Increasing cloudiness tonight and Sunday. Lowi tonight about 20. Highs Sunday In 30s. VOLUME 92 NUMBER 353 CITY FINAL 15 CENTS CEOAH RAPIDS, IOWA, SATURDAY, DECICMHER 28, 1974 ASSOCIATED PUESS, Ul'I, NKW YORK TIMES HOSTAGES SEIZED AT PARTY "Clash of Ideas" at Ford Talks VAIL, Colo. (AP) President Ford and his advisers are meet ing amid a "clash of ideas" to come up ,with a national energy policy. Federal Reserve Board Chair- man Arthur Burns was joining the discussions Saturday follow- ing a five-hour session Friday among Ford and 15 other aides. Press Secretary Ron Nessen reported after Friday's meeting that Ford teaid it was "tough as hell" to decide on a national en- ergy policy. "Choices were narrowed, but no definitive decisions were Nessen said. Ford skipped skiing Friday for the first time in six days to hold his first major business meeting since he came here for a holiday vacation. On inlo Afternoon Nessen described the opening round of talks Friday as "inten- sive, detailed and concentrat- ed." He said Ford and his advisers were not in total accord and that a of ideas" to nar- row the differences is under way. Originally scheduled as a morning meeting, Friday's ses- sion went on into the afternoon, with Ford inviting his advisers to a buffet lunch and stag din- ner at his rented Swiss-modern chalet. He took time out before the dinner to drop in at a cocktai reception given by two members of Vail Associates, an organization that runs this re- sort Ford plans to announce his economic and energy policies in a State of the Union message to congress after it convenes Jan, 14. I Tclcphoto No Details After Friday's meeting, Nes- sen declined to give any details of what Ford and his advisers are contemplating to fight infla- tion, recession 'and the oil- energy crisis. ''The President request.ee again that there be no public discussion of the details ol issues he lias under consider- Nessen said. "The Pres- ident wants to have all parts of his energy policy thoroughly thought out before he announces or has his advisers discuss it publicly." After his energy aides com- pleted a weekend conference al Camp David, Md., this month to recommend energy policy op- tions, Ford sent them back to come up with "proposals closer to his Nessen said. That's what's being done here, he added. Further meetings are con- templated before Ford makes his final decisions in two or three weeks. CIA Report He slipped away after Fri- day's conference and closeted himself in his bedroom to read a 50-page report by Central In- telligence Agency Director Wil- liam Colby in response to alle- gations that the CIA illegally conducted domestic spying and had files on American cit- izens. Ford said he will comment publicly on the report and per- haps make portions of it public after he has read it. Today's Index Comics 9 Crossword ..................11 Dolly Record............... 2 Deaths 2 Features 4 Financial 10 Marlon 5 Movies 8 Sports ....................7, 8 Television 5 Want Ads ...............11-13 TRUTH OR CONSEQUENCES, N. M. (AP) j-Uoseph Cordova, 14, lost for three days and two nights in snow-covered plains, says he used his rifle to fight off coyotes. He said they were apparently attracted by the scent of three rabbits which he had killed. "The coyotes kept coming he said. "At 'first I threw the rabbits at them, then I had to shoot the coyotes with my rifle." A search dog found the Albu- querque boy in a snowbank Fri- day. He became separated from his father and brother during a Christmas hunting trip in a storm that dumped nearly a foot of snow. He apparently wandered aim- lessly on the plains west of the (Continued: Page 2, Col. 8.) David Cordova Looks Down at His Rescued Son, Joseph Search Dog Finds Boy in Snowy Wilds 19 Americans Held In Laos by Rebels VIENTIANE, Laos Rebellious Laotian troops held 19 Americans under house ar- rest for a fourth day Saturday in an isolated Mekong river out- post in northwestern Laos, U. S. embassy officials said. Two senior ministers in Laos' coalition government planned to fly to the lown of Ban Houei Sai lo negotiate for the Americans' release, but a U. S. official here said he doubted they would be [reed soon. The Americans have been confined since about 100 Roya Lao army soldiers mutinied am took control of the provincia capital 240 miles northwest o] Vientiane. "Less Likely" The U. S. embassy said the Americans were not regardec as hostages, although other well-informed sources said they ivere not free to leave the town. them are a pregnan woman and a number of sma" State of Emergency Decreed in Bangladesh DACCA, Bangladesh (AP) The government declared a nationwide state of emergency Saturday because of internal disturbances it said are threat- ening the nation's security and economic life. The order suspended coiisti- :utional rights effective imme- diately, giving Prime Minister Vlujib Rahman nearly a free land in running the country. There was no immediate indi- cation what "disturbances" the proclamation was designed to counter. But the countryside has suf- 'ercd from "widespread bandilry and political violence ever since he nation separated from Pak- slan in the bloody var of 1971. Famine Toll In addition, Ihc government ias acknowledged that more han persons have died of starvation in the last four months. Independent estimates put the toll much higher. Though the emergency decla- ration offered no explanation, it appeared that Ihc move was i Among woman children. U. S. officials had cxpressec hope the Americans would be freed Saturday but one souro said Ihis "now appears less like ly." He did not say why the situ ation appeared to have changed. The rebels are Lao Theung tribesmen. When they took over Ban Houei Sai, sources sai( they were demanding it be dc clared politically neutral am that the government repeal the opium law passed by the na lional assembly in 1971. Right ists said at the time that the demands were not negotiable. The opium law makes it ille- gal to cultivate opium for sale and stipulates that only the head of a household may cul tivate it for family consumption Opium has long been a chic cash crop in the region. U. S. embassy sources saic that Ambassador Charles White- house flew to the royal capital of Luang Prabang Thursday to express to Prime Minister Sou- vanna Phouma his concern for the safety of the Americans. Several Killed Whitehouse also met with foreign Minister Phoumi Vong- vichit, the No. 2 man in the Communist Patliet Lao, the sources said. Western military sources said the rebels fired more than 20 mortar shells inlo Ihc head- quarters for the army garrison. Several civilians and soldiers were killed Ihey said. The sources said Pathct Lao roops attacked and overran six jao army outposts in the area as the rebels seized the town. Bangladesh, the former East Pakistan, won independence three years and 12 days ago after winning a guerilla war with India's help. Mujib returned from Pakistani imprisonment Jan. 10, 1972, and in March, 1973, swept elections with more than 95 percent of (he scats in parliament. Almost Nothing The euphoria dissipated, how- ever, as his govcrnmenl slarted with almost nothing in its struggle to restore order and build a viable economy out of the ruins. Crime and political assassina ions plagued the regime with- out letup, and local leaders of ihe ruling Awanii League party were frequent victims. But Mujib's most tragic prob- lem remained lack of food. Pro- duction this year fell about (hrce million Ions short of the 12 million tons of food grains j needed by the nation's 75 mil- lion people. Mujib has called on Ihc army ploycs who retire this year. Ervin and Cook Resigning Early WASHINGTON (AP) Sena- tors Ervin (D-N. C.) and Cook (R-Ky.) have joined six senate colleagues in resigning just be- fore the end of their terms. Ervin said Friday he will re- sign Tuesday, just before 1974 ends, to take advantage of a 6.4 pension in- FAA Lag On Safety Is Charged WASHINGTON (AF 'ederal Aviation Administration ias failed to provide leadership n advancing air safety, a house panel has charged. The FAA, which is 'responsible or regulating airplane vas also criticized Friday ts actions in connection wo commercial jet crashes that claimed 438 lives. In the case of a Turkish Air- ines DC-10 that crashed near 'aris last March, killing 346 >ersons in the worst air disaster n history, the FAA premalure- y certified the plane's safety, 'aid the report by a subcommit- ee of the house interstate and oreign commerce committee. French investigators have said he jumbo jet crashed because cargo door broke open, caus- ng a sudden decompression that )uckled the floor of the cargo lold and damaged control ca- )les. Virginia Crash The FAA was also crilicizec '.or its actions following the Dec. 1 crash of a Trans Work Airlines Boeing 727 near Upper ville, Va., that killed 92. Afte the crash, FAA Administrator Alexander Butterfield announce that airlines would be requirec to install a device that alerts th pilot when his craft is below desired altitude. The congressional panel salt (he ground-proximity warning system required by the FAA would be less effective in pre- venting crashes than a system recommended by the committee. The FAA, while declining comment on tile report's broad- er allegations, said the device specified by the committee had not been perfected by the man- ufacturer but would be required equipment when it is ready. Airmen Reminder The FAA announced Friday hat it would centralize in its Washington headquarters all air- craft certification and other 'unctions now performed in field operating regions. And it reminded airmen of a rule that the pilot bears the ulti- mate responsibility for the safe- y of his aircraft and that lie ;hould maintain his assigned iltitude until established on a egment of a published route or an instrument approach pro- :edurc. Information released after the rash in Virginia indicated that lie plane may have dropped be- ow the assigned altitude be- ause (ho crew misunderstood 10 approach clearance. from Amy YORK (AP) r- is she in- the final arbiter "Look it up in the dic- etiquette for millions It means manuscript." has died in a to Amy Vanderbilt, a second-story window social rule is, when you Manhattan know a woman's title, you said Miss refer to her as jumped or fell from the I'm the authority on the Friday Yong Kho, deputy, in Staten Island, N. Y., examiner, said she 22, 1908, she was the fractures of the of the former Mary spine, ribs and Brooks and Joseph Mor- well as lacerations and Vanderbilt, an insurance 7 passerby found her Vanderbilt attended the the steps of the front Heubi in Switzerland, of her collegiate institute in and New York univer- where she studied journal- irownstone on the upper East ide shortly before 8 p.m. She ivas pronounced dead on arrival it a metropolitan hospital. Police said her husband, urtis Kellar, a general counsel to the international division o: Mobil Oil, and one of her sons by a previous marriage were a home at the time. Mogul Cousins Kellar noticed the open win- dow and looked out just as the passerby discovered his wife. A first cousin of railroad mogul Cornelius Vanderbilt, Miss Vanderbilt also claimed descent from the first Vander- lo settle In America, Janl Today's Chuckle Statistics show that there are more television sets in America than bathtubs. Which seems lo prove that you don't have to be clean to be enter- tained. Amy Vanderbilt Her first job was as a society and feature writer for the Sta- en Island Advance. Later she went into publicity and advertis- ng, although she continued! to write a column for International lews Service. First Job Band Holds Notables in Nicaragua MANAGUA, Nicaragua (AP) An armed band seized the home of a wealthy business man while a Socialite parly was under way and held as hostages a number of diplomats, govern- ment employes and industri- alists, the government an- nounced Saturday. It declared martial law. The hostages were believed all Nicaraguans. Their exact number could not be immediate- i ly determined. Two policemen were killed nd a number of other persons rounded in 'the initial attack on he house Friday night, officials aid. After publication of her book, she became a col- umnist for United Features. She was married four times. Her marriages to Robert Brin- kcnhoff in 1929, Morton Clark in 1935 and Hans Knopf in 1954 ended in divorce. She jnarriei Kellar in 19C8. She had three sons. The Envoy to U. S. secretary of President Anastasio Somoza said the hos- ages included the Nicaraguan ambassador to the U. S., Dr. jUillermo Sevilla Sacaza, and the ambassador to the U. N., uillermo Lang, and his wife, in addition to Managua Mayor ,uis Valle Olivares and his wife. The band, identified by the secretary as the Sandinista Front, swept into the home of Jose Maria Castillo Quant while the party was under way. Hundreds of national guard sol- diers surrounded the house later and were still there Saturday. The Sandinista Front is named for Augusto Cesar San- Aerslen van der Bllf. She wrote an internationally- syndicated daily newspaper col- umn, a monthly magazine col- umn, and books that sold more han five million copies, "What does Amy Vanderbilt was the first question asked by millions of Americans aced with the details of plan- ning weddings and formal par- ies or the problem of making uneral arrangements. Considered by many the died when their vehicles collided a the intersection of highway 3( and Hale road a mile north of here. Authorities said Franklin Blah- nik, jr., 43, rural Monmouth, and Linda Harington, 33, Olin, were thrown from their vehicles )y the impact and died of neck injuries. The highway patrol said Tracy Harington, 7, who was :ountry's foremost authority on he subject, Miss Vanderbilt jegan her career in etiquette in '.52. Prior to that she was a ournalist, advertising woman ind publicist. "Must Investigate" She once said of her work: "I ry io find out the most 'entecl people regularly do, vhat traditions they have dis- arded, what compromises they iave made. "1 always thought, for exam- }lc, that it was improper for a ady to cross her legs. Yet re- ently I saw two very eminent adies do just that. Now if must nvestigate and find out what is -orrect." Recently she acknowledged hat traditional etiquette was ut of place in an age of social, hilosophical and economic up- caval. "Ms. Unbearable" However, Miss Vanderbilt, preferred being addressed y her professional name or as firs. Kellar, took a dim view of lie feminist "Ms." title. Monmouth Man, Olin Woman Die in Crash OLIN Two Eastern guerilla hotter who -was cd about p.m. 'Friday MM? the early 1930s iding with her mother, was ad- milted to an Anamosa hospital 'or treatment of minor injuries. Ronnie L. Holland, 17, Mon- mouth, a passenger in Blahnik's pickup, was treated at an Ana- masa hospital and released. The highway patrol said Blah- nik's westbound pickup failed to stop for a stop sign and struck the Harington car. Services for Mrs. Harington ire pending at Hayden's in Olin. Services for Blahnik are pend ing at Hayden's in Oxford Junc- tion. Finch Seeking Seat in Senate SAN MARINO, Calif. (AP) Robert Finch, former presidon- ial counselor, has declared his candidacy for the Republican J. S. senate nomination. Finch, 43, resigned in 1972 after serving President Nixon as secretary of health, education and welfare and later as an ad- iser with cabinet rank. 2.4% Jobless in C.R. crease available to federal em- lo take over efforts to move I Cook he was slopping designed to free Mujib fromtfood from the southern port of down effective Friday so that constitutional restraint in dral-jCliitlagong to northern famine jhis successor, Democrat Wen- ing with crime, famine and the j areas and to halt large-scale [dell Ford, would have "a few debilitating corruption In a tismuggling along the Indinnidays' head start" on seniority hampers the economy. [border. other incoming senators. odar Rapids Unemployment rose from 1.6 percent in October to 2.4 lercent in November in the Cedar Rapids area, according to a report released Saturday >y the Iowa Employment Se- curity commission. 'Die report blamed the in- crease largely on seasonal rends. However, it said sev- ral industries did have lay- offs. Jobless The number of jobless workers in Cedar Rapids (de- fined by Ihc commission as all of I.inn county) totaled in November, an increase of from October. The national unemployment average for November was G.5 percent. Last year in November the Cedar Rapids unemployment rale was 1.9 percent and workers were jobless. Increase Seen The report said Ihe unem- ployment rate is expected to increase through February as seasonal conditions cause em- ployment to drop in agricul- ture, construction and retail trade. It said Ihe national economy may influence manufacturing employment in Cedar liapids and Urns produce a .substan- tially higher jobless rale. The labor force (tho number of employed and unemployed workers) in the Cedar Rapids area declined from in October lo 7IUOO in No- vember. The labor force was in November of 197K. Drop Told Total employment dropped from in October lo in November. A season- al decline in agriculture was for most of this reduction, the report Said. Employment in November of this year was above the level recorded in 197.1 Nonmanufacturing indus- tries reported a gain of workers from November, 197.1, to November, In manu- facturing, cmploymcnl rose from in November of to in November of 1974. when U. S. marines were oc- cupying Nicaragua to back up a pro-U. S. government. Sandino was a leader of a fight against the presence of Americans in Nicaragua. Others Held The secretary said other hos- tages included Moel Tallais and bis wife, identified as cousins of President Somoza; Ernesto Her- nandez Holman, listed as the local president of the Bank of America, and his wife; a local jusiness man, Denis Gallo and nis wife; Benjamin Gallo, de- scribed as an impresario; a newspaperman identified as Col. Laslo Pataky, and Franco Cha- morro, another official of the Bank of America here. A communique issued by the secretary said the Sandinista :and assaulted the home "firing their weapons and wounding several persons." "Children Also" Police said they had not been able to determine (the number of .errorists involved but added ,hat most of them carried auto- matic weapons. 'There are children a government source said of the juesls. The policemen killed were dentified as Rolando Espinoza ind Sgt. Voanergcs Morales. Of- 'icials said that among the wounded were policeman Julio Osorio Espinoza and Felix Me- dina Savedra, identified as a >odyguard for Castillo Quant. Named to Job Vacant Due to Death; Dies KNOX, Tnd. (AP) County Auditor Richard Zcllcrs, ap- pointed to a second term when the November election winner died last month, died Fridny nifrhl of a heart attack. Zellers, 44, a Republican who lost in the last election by 400 votes to Democrat Francis Knarr, was to have begun his new four-year term ncxl week. He had been asked by county commissioners to serve the term after Knnrr, 6H, died Nov. 29. j Safe Limit WASHINGTON (AP) The j current permissible maximum of 0.5 percent o( lead In paint is n sale limit and need not be lowered, the Consumer Product Safely Commission decided Fri- day. ;


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It seems that the science of semiotics needs to be invoked to begin talking about the new Ring designed by Guy Cassiers, playing this year at Staatsoper Berlin and at La Scala, on the 200th birthday of Richard Wagner, under the baton of Daniel Barenboim. In the aftermath of the first installment, the Rhinegold of April 4, it appeared that the ears will be quite satisfied by the orchestra and its conductor but the visual presentation on the stage was going to be a different matter.
Anticipatory Reflections
My Wagner friend often tells me that regardless of the mise en scène she can always "close her eyes." One never hears such a thing said of Verdi — it would be impossible. This is because of the unique gorgeousness or truth of the Wagner music — something hard to explain — but the immediate implication for the prospective director of a Wagner opera is that although he might take measures to supplement or enhance the enjoyment of the piece, his work paradoxically but strictly speaking might be superfluous. The peculiar state of affairs can therefore arise that a more willful or egoistic director might in the manner of Klingsor return the favor by turning his back on the music and staging a visual event to rival it, quite independent of and external to the music and its mission and referring to itself only. In recent years the extreme example or illustration of this directorial decision that I know of is the Los Angeles Ring of Achim Freyer, with its pictorial smorgasbord of novel and invented visual objects, not so good-looking in themselves nor at all good at settling down into a gestalt alongside each other, but serving instead as superfluous signs of a system of anger or fear or love — the sorts of things Wagner's musical leitmotifs already "refer" to — signs for which Freyer provides their own parallel history to and evolution through the course of the four operas. It was as if the opera were hooked up to a hospital monitor that showed its vital signs. The new Paris Ring is likewise rich in superfluous visual paraphernalia but these are of a different character insofar as they retell the history of the Twentieth Century (for what it is worth) and so they at least behave like signs since they refer to something outside the operas which the audience already knows, though the relevance to Wagner's plot remains an open question.
The artistic overreaching that characterizes all of Wagner's work will always leave us overwhelmed and uncertain, and will always therefore provide an umbrella to protect the ingenuities by which lesser minds and lesser talents seek to supplement his allusive libretto with a more concrete interpretation. The audience however is the ultimate arbiter, and for their sake I present a commonsense axiom. Any production that leaves its own meaning unclear rather than Wagner's meaning must be counted a failure. The questions Wagner leaves open are the questions that will always remain open since they are the ultimate questions. In comparison with these, the referential puzzles we often find ourselves left to decipher by more recent Regie-productions take on the aspect of impertinent mimicry. We know they are impertinent because for all the brave insouciance such directors parade in ignoring and abusing Wagner's own very explicit stage directions, they never have the cheek to alter the libretto or the music. (Are we meant to be thrilled by the announcement that Mademoiselle Wagner has included a clause in the new director's contract at Bayreuth that he will not cut or alter the score?). By keeping their hands off these they are acknowledging once and for all that they do not wish to be taken seriously, that they are hoping the audience will conspire in their cynicism to work around the edges and rearrange the deck chairs, or in a truer metaphor to slum with superiors or to act the way persons do that choose to waste their inheritance rather than protect it and pass it on.
There is another reason these directors concentrate on the staging besides their fear of trying to improve the libretto — this thing Joyce called the "ineluctable modality of the visual." Taking another cue from Klingsor, the Regiesseur can divert and then refocus his audience's attention by exploiting the sensory stimulation of the eyes. The stage after all appears to the eye as a framed visual field, and we learned last year in the case of Lepage that no expense will ever again be forgone to fill the stage with a hundred tons of machinery — an ultimate semiotic paradox, since what we are left looking at during the entire production is a machine that does nothing but produce optical illusions. It is no accident that this mighty nightmare was conceived in connection with Wagner's Ring.
It is fair to say that arbitrary visuals have become the central issue in the recent performance history of Wagner, above the poetry and the "tone" which are left in the hands of the individual artists. Indeed this is perhaps the main implication of the current language of "Regie" — that the director is more important than the performers, even though all the while he keeps his mitts off the libretto and the music. It is inevitable today that any mise en scène of Wagner's works, and especially of the Ring, will be conceive itself as taking its place within this context, as Cassiers does in his interview about his production reprinted in the program here for the Die Walküre, where he begins by comparing his interpretation with the 1976 presentation of Chereau at Bayreuth, which itself commemorated the centennial of the Ring. I had high hopes that the current version, which was commissioned to commemorate the second centennial of Wagner's birth, might make an "historical" contribution to this history, maybe even to raise the problem of the visuals and their limitations to the level of consciousness.
Rhinegold, April 4
With this orientation and hope in the background I went to the Rhinegold of the second cycle at the Staatsoper Berlin on Thursday 4 April. The initial impression was very bad. It seemed we had come all this way to be subjected to another Regie extravaganza. René Pape's much anticipated Wotan was not a revelation. At the end the applause was the most muted I've ever heard after the Rheingold in any Ring Cycle. The faces in line at the garderobe had been served a dubious meal and seemed to be anticipating stomach problems. Clearly the director was trying to introduce us to his own dark semiotic world rather than render the piece with all its distinctively ethical focus on the contagious power of envy and borrowed desire, as Loge's speech in the Second Scene demonstrates and all the subsequent action proves. Instead we were introduced to the predominant feature of this production, a huge backdrop produced somehow by lights and capable of any color or pattern. The backdrop is so dominant and preoccupied with itself that the director had to leave the stage bare; and perhaps this is why several dancers were brought on to portray the chains in which Alberich was bound or a chair for Loge to sit on while tricking him. These dancers were the first semiotic dead-end of the cycle.
Die Walküre, April 5
Happily, after the Walküre much if not all was forgiven. The faces were happier, grumbling about one detail and effusing about another in the usual way. Best of all I heard people trying to say something about Wagner they had never quite been able to say, brow furrowed, before the dream should slip away during dinner afterwards. Near the Schiller Theater, which is the current venue for the Staatsoper, we have what we have always had after performances at the Deutsche Oper, the Ristorante Don Giovanni on Bismarckstrasse that observantly stays open after all operas in the neighborhood so that we can sort all this out, or more likely let it gently slip down into the subconscious for future sorting out over nicely presented and delicious Italian Cuisine.
This was a simpler and more straightforward production, conceived with less fussy details though at the same time presented with an abstract spareness we have become accustomed to elsewhere, a fashion that puts greater onus onto the actor-singers. As actors they were underdirected but as singers they were a success. Waltraud Meier sang Sieglinde and Peter Seiffert sang Siegmund. The setting was more naturalistic than the night before. For Act One the corner of Hunding's abode was the center rear so there was a triangular orientation that nicely convened with the triangle or triangles being carried out in the action between Hunding, Sieglinde and Siegmund. The blocking (or Personenregie) was however wooden. Ms. Meier made up for some of that by her own professional demeanor and noble arms.
The general and continuously employed stage feature dominating this production of the Ring is a video projection hard to believe for its flexibility and fine detail and its metamorphoses. It might be broken up at times, as for instance into vertical bands like a barcode, so as not to need to be realistic; sometimes the field is given over to a homogeneous field of water or trees; sometimes a geometrical pastiche of pictures or symbols; and sometimes it appears as side panels so as to form a sort of triptych with the stage action. In the Rhinegold the background could of course be shimmering water and at the beginning of Die Walküre it was of course the forest, around Hunding's abode, capable of producing the fine detail of coruscating leaves. The shimmering was just right. Too little and the thing becomes static; too much and it draws attention to itself. We were led to formulate a poetics of the imagery as we went along. Soon I got the sense that the presence of a god or his influence in the action strengthened the shimmering or pushed the imagery beyond the representational, as if one of the things the backdrop was meant to communicate was the influence of the gods on human affairs, unknown to the humans involved. This helped us to guess, but only in retrospect, that the divine action of the Rhinegold was perhaps supposed to be unclear.
The last scene of the Third Act was very disappointing to me. Theorin screamed her Brunnhilde and her articulation was poor, and while Pape's tone was gentle and pure (he kept sounding like José Van Dam) the emotions the director gave him were all wrong. He was hurt rather than torn. The Personenregie was again wooden: back and forth they walked, as Sieglinde and Siegmund had in the First Act, and they almost forwent embracing altogether, but gave in and hugged at the last minute. Wotan then became sentimentally preoccupied with covering her up while she went to sleep, even turning his back to the audience, but he forgot to hammer the ground with his spear when he called for Loge (the percussionist in the pit below didn't). Pape's depiction made him a disappointed human rather than a god hastening the onset of his own doom. It was as if he regretted the fact that Brunnhilde was a kühnes herrliches Kind rather than being so inspired by her as to relent and surround the mountain with fire to protect her.
Siegfried April 7
The Siegfried followed two nights later. At the beginning an announcement from the curtain told us that Siegfried (Lance Ryan) had not shown up and nobody know where he was, but that Andreas Schager, who was to sing Siegfried in the Götterdämmerung three nights later, happened to be in the building and agreed to sing the role with a score at a podium at the side of the stage. The Assistant Director Derek Gimpel pantomimed Siegfried on the stage. The costume fitting him just fine. Of course a great pressure was put onto Peter Bronder's Mime to call in one direction and hear Siegfried from another. Despite his overall success, five days later in the elevator at our apartment building Bronder could still break into a nervous smile recounting the bullets he had dodged.
With this third opera we saw a new use of the magical stage effects that establish a fairy tale atmosphere. Things start out with the gorgeous naturalism of leafy trees surrounding Mime's camp wonderously produced by the video backdrop. When the Wanderer arrives and the long and baffling question and answer session slowly plays itself out, in which human ignorance of the divine plane of things is thematized more explicitly than anywhere else in the opera, the stage gradually expands upward like a cobra and becomes tensely vertiginous. Then, when Siegfried takes forging the sword into his own hands the whole background becomes a fire and the trees become tangled heaps of discarded sword shafts. There is something of an apocalypse of Siegfried at this moment. The overall effect was thrilling and the curtain met with thunderous applause.
But now another problem came into focus, suggested by the ventriloquism of Siegfried's role in tonight's First Act. It is the problem that dogs this production all along. With all the sensational lighting, the stage magic, and the saturated peculiarities in costume and make-up, the expressivity of the characters and the plot for which they are the vehicle is blunted or lost. What really brought this home was the reappearance of dancers during the Forest Scene in Act Two, something we had not seen since the Rhinegold. This time they danced around Siegfried with knives and seemed to embody externally the growth of his inner resolve as he dealt with Mime. This was better than making them furniture only, as they became in the Rhinegold, but it brought to the fore that the visual supplementation of what was going on within Siegfried's soul by these persons looming around him was merely a claim by the director, a "statement" that his direction should have already proved so as to make the dancers redundant.
Most of us know the plot of the Ring pretty well, but even so all of us learn something new about it each time. This production, I now came to realize, has been taking no care at all to retell the story so much as to elaborate it with external inferences and commentary. For Wagner, however, forming the story was the fundamental creative act that governed all the other aspects of the composition. The stories are not only allusive and deep with psychological meaning but also can be as complicated as clockwork. Mencken famously said of the Meistersinger that more thought went into its design than into the entire corpus of Shakespeare! In the Ring Cycle the maximal complexity is reached upon the entry of Brunnhilde in Act Two Scene Four of Götterdämmerung since all the characters know and believe different things. The overall impression I had by the end of the Siegfried was that something was missing in the presentation, and now I realized that this something is the story. I realized I was having to expend a lot of energy supplying it, while the director was complicating my job by adding dots for me to connect in order to keep the flow of the action alive.
Failing to tell the story can be another liability when a becomes distracted into exploiting the "ineluctable modality of the visual," since the visuals by their very nature distract from the characters and their actions and can even obstruct the story from showing through their actions and their words. If the story is worth telling, the ineluctable modality needs to be managed with care, attenuated, coped with, controlled — not exploited for the sake of creating a description by which the new production might be distinguished from others. We had the problem with Bob Wilson and his faceless persona masks, stiff and iconic costumes, and stylized stage movements; we had it with Achim Freyer's sets that looked like a pin-ball game and ridiculously oversaturated costumery that turned the characters into grab toys from a box of Crackerjacks. How much can the characters be seen to undergo a change when it is the colossal stage is changing in a way that appears to defy the laws of gravity? How will we know the full meaning of the characters' words when their faces are frozen in makeup or invisible?
As to the final scene of the night between Siegfried and Brunnhilde, corresponding to that between Wotan and Brunnhilde the night before, the blocking is now much busier but not better directed. Brunnhilde and Siegfried keep exchanging places on the elevated bed-platform as if they were playing king of the mountain. It is something of a joke, a sort of musical chairs. that was only emphasized by Lance Ryan's boyish depiction of Siegfried (he had arrived in time for the Second Act). In Wagner's poem their talk and their feelings do go back and forth, and do go hot and cold, but there is a development in what is happening and the intensification of an ascending spiral. The huge transitions such as Siegfried's "Sangst du mir nicht dein Wissen sei" and Brunnhilde's "Ewige war Ich" mark escalations in the tension and depth of their encounter but the staging had them running around in circles.
Götterdämmerung April 10
The other three operas of the cycle had already been rolled out during previous years, both here and in Milan. The Götterdämmerung is new with this run, and so is the program published with it, which includes a presentation of the Official Interpretation of the production by its "Dramaturge," Michael Steinberg (an academic from Brown Univeersity, not the late and wise program annotator).
To the extent that acting and character become more important as the story becomes more human, I hoped the visible business would be attenuated for the more humanly complicated Götterdämmerung, on Wednesday 10 April. My hopes were thwarted by unexpected imperfections in the musical execution, not to mention a huge escalation of visual distractions imposed on the piece by the director. The orchestra now and then lost track of the beat and even played half bars apart from itself. In the opening scene between Brunnhilde and Siegfried they played much too slow, visibly forcing the singers to find ways to slow themselves down. Such a thing might due to the fact that all four operas are rehearsed in advance of the performance of the cycle, as I later heard, so that it was well over a week ago that they had practiced what they were performing; and my wise seatmate from Covent Garden thought it might have been fatigue from Barenboim's very heavy schedule. As to the singers, Andreas Schager's formal debut as Siegfried was a surprising disappointment after his stand-in work in Act One of the Siegfried three nights before. There he had the score and did not need to act, but here he did not and did. He stared at the prompter throughout his intimate opening scene with Brunnhilde and afterward he continually positioned himself for a sightline-lifeline. His phrases characteristically blasted out the opening note and then gave way to a line that lacked tone and musical curve. Perhaps he was saving himself for the difficult exposed passages in the final act. He did improve over the course of the evening and did pull the last act off without a hitch. Mikhail Petrenko was singing Hagen from the back of his throat this night, but Hagen must sound evil to the core. Theorin was improved from before — better enunciation and rising to full command of the stage for the immolation. Most impressive to me was her use of piano at the beginning of that final scene. For all the shortcomings, however, Waltraud Meier's burnished and professional presentation of the Second Norn and especially of Waltraute with her curving supplication of Brunnhilde were a welcome compensation.
As to the interference of the director, he has decided to tell us "who the Gibichungs are" — what sort of culture or Weltanschauung they live in. This is a question without a Wagnerian answer. To the extent we meet the Gibichung populace at all it is the chorus of Hagen's vassals later filled in with townswomen, and as we learn from the vassals' remarks after the murder of Siegfried — "Hagen, was tust du?," followed immediately by "Hagen, was tatest du?" — we learn they are just a feckless mass. As for Wagner, the moment he places us in the Gibichung Hall he directs our attention away from all historical, political, and social questions by presenting us a trio of characters that cannot but remind us of those we met in the First Act of Die Walküre — a pair of twins and an odd man out. We already had the opportunity to sense the huge ring by which the middle operas end where they begin, the Siegfried ending with an heroic surrender to love, just as Die Walküre had begun with a scandalous one. By the time of the Siegfried much has been gained, however. This time the love is more than a quasi-illusion owing to the puppetry of Wotan, its narcissistic character emblematized by the incest of Sieglinde and Siegmund, as Fricka proudly and correctly objects. No, this time a goddess has chosen to relinquish her immortality and die for love ("ewig' war ich," she says), and a manly hero has disarmed and unthewed himself to learn fear and explore the dark and warm secrets of intimacy. (We can leave the almost completely accidental fact that Brunnhilde is his aunt to the Anna Russell's of this world).
Despite this progress in love from the closed embryo of Siegmund and Sieglinde to the open encounter of Brunnhilde and Siegfried in the light of day that will never look back, so beautifully recalled in the orchestral interlude between the first and second scenes of the Prelude to Götterdämmerung, the story is not over. We have another opera, the most operatic of all, that follows this prelude, and the first characters we meet are again brother-sister twins who this time are looking for spouses in order to maintain their prideful claim as rulers. Hagen corresponds somehow with Hunding (not Siegfried, pace Mr. Steinberg's essay), the odd man out who will ruin everything. In a slightly different world Gutrune and Gunther could have overcome their political problem by marrying each other (as Siegmund and Sieglinde did, though in their case it was for the sake of love in defiance of power politics). These allusive pairings of Wagner's take all focus away from the Gibichung populace, of which Mr.Steinberg's interpretation makes so much, and turn the focus inward, onto the fateful choices of the individual characters and how vulnerable they are willing to let love make them. Siegmund and Sieglinde's love nearly cancels the rights and claims of Hunding (Siegmund converted Brunnhilde in the Todesverkundung scene, requiring Wotan to intervene at the last minute) but there is no way that love will enable Gunther and Gutrune to resist the evil of their half-brother, Hagen. Instead he will use them to get at Brunnhilde and Siegfried, and then use these only to get at the Ring — as we see in his sudden reappearance at the very end of the final scene of Act Three.
Exactly because the political and social ethos of the Gibichungs does not matter to his story, Wagner leaves it undefined. But exactly because he leaves it open he has provided a lacuna where an impertinent director can insert himself, at the expense of diverting our attention away from the feckless insubstantiality of Gunther and Gutrune which Wagner means for us to compare with the epochal moment in the History of Love that Brunnhilde and Siegfried have just now achieved. These are Wagner's true themes in the Ring, even if it detracts from their impression on us to try to systematize them. What makes the pomp of the Gibichungs empty is the same as what makes the pride of Hunding empty: it is the absence of love, as Wagner indicates by the very similar leitmotives he gives them — this broad and empty leaping movement audible the very moment they come on stage, though the Gibichungs' is scored in a polished way while Hunding's is rude and rustic. It is this music, not Steinberg's dunkel Kadenze at the end of Siegfried's Journey nor the music depicting Hagen's Dream at the beginning of Act Two, that characterizes the self-understanding of the Gibichungs price and princess.
Cassiers however has a full theory of the Gibichungs as a bankrupt regime to be compared with the current situation of the Eurozone with its all embracing rules that continually fail to organize the diverse and far-flung region — so much we learn from his interview in the program — though it is only through quite accidental means that he conveys even the impression of this far-flung allegorical interpretation. In particular, this smallish stage will need to accommodate a large chorus in the Götterdämmerung, and part of the solution is a strange piece of furniture that keeps threatening to enter from the side as a signal we are in the Gibichung Hall — a sort of brightly lit grandstand eight or ten rows high made of modular transparent boxes stuffed with what can only be gaggles of body parts. Bosch's Hell-panel in the "Garden of Earthly Delights" comes to mind as an analogy, though if we take the trouble of reading the program where once again we learn that a word is worth one-thousandth of a picture, Cassiers tell us he has in mind the lesser known but "controversial" bas-relief of his fellow Belgian Jef Lambeaux, Die menschlichen Leidenschaften, depicted on the slipcover of the Götterdämmerung program. We can say that it takes great skill to convey such a preposterous image so ineluctably — "What were those body parts doing there?" you could hear almost everyone saying during the intermissions — but the ineluctable and recognizable is not thereby illuminating or meaningful. The semiotic problem returns. When the sign depicts something that makes no sense, or presents a Sinn without a Bedeutung if you will, it becomes an opaque and superfluous increment of visual saturation, the visual analogue to the old notion of the Klangteppich. The immediate effect or hazard of such an addition is to bore the audience with more than it can engage with and digest, analogous to the effect of the orchestra playing too loud.
Looking back I think what struck me most about this production was that despite the music I was always on the verge of boredom, and I think this carpet of visuals, this continuous, huge, and gorgeous visual backdrop that unaccountably morphs from one image to another, is what caused me to feel this way. At times it enhanced the story, as at the end of the Act One of Siegfried the whole stage was full of the flames of his smithy pit; or at the beginning of the Walküre Hunding's abode was surrounded by coruscating leaves often it was just there; but from time to time, and especially in the Rhinegold and the last act of Götterdämmerung it was given over to images that required us momentarily to disengage from the very dense progress of the action and the music even to make out let alone incorporate them. It will be by some as yet unconvened term for this backdrop that this production will get its name, as the LePage has from its machine. I dreaded what he might pack into the several last moments of the opera, that purely orchestral passage dense with a pageant of the story's leitmotives, which Wagner recalls all the great moments of the action. Brunnhilde has mounted the steps of the lightboxes full of body parts; all else is fire; and when she disappears beyond we see the Rhine's waters, but then the director succeeds to end with all the chorus looking back at the mural of struggling humanity sedimented into the riverbed of the Rhine.
Wagner included the stage direction that all the persons left alive on the stage should be looking to the immolation of Valhalla behind and in the distance, with their backs to the audience, as the curtain falls; but in case this had not been enough to make us identify with them, our director adds the overly concrete and pedantic touch of placing another copy of the mural they watched at the rear onto the front of the curtain that falls, leaving the audience alone to wonder at the future fate of mankind. Cassiers has told us in his interview that he decided for a pessimistic ending instead of the optimistic ending of Chereau's Bayreuth centennial, and even Wagner wavered about what final words of prophecy he should give to Brunnhilde, but as Dahlhaus long ago showed it is the final line of the music — an entirely exposed reiteration of Brunnhilde's annunciation to Sieglinde in Act Three of Die Walküre that she is pregnant with Siegfried, that tells us that the only future we can have will be supplied by the fruits and offspring of Love. This musical gesture to an open and vital future in the score becomes truncated and closed off by Cassiers's dark and intransigent visual image of endless human strife and chaos.
The applause at the curtain was weak, scattered, and somehow reluctant. Overall there was no sale and nothing commemorative about the concept or the execution of this production. Another cycle starts here on Sunday, April 14, and then it moves back to Milan.
Ken Quandt


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"But the hunter refused to take the shot because of the risk of hitting someone on the opposite shore," a spokesman for the police in the city of Lübeck told SPIEGEL ONLINE.
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Aug 16 2010Better Late Than Never: Luke's Deleted Return Of The Jedi Lightsaber Building Scene
This is a deleted scene from Return of the Jedi featuring Darth Vader calling to his son from his masturbation chamber (creepy) while Luke finishes building his lightsaber on Tattooine. The scene was viewed at Star Wars Celebration V in Orlando, but will be available for your own home-viewing pleasure as part of a remastered, special edition Blu-Ray box-set (of all six episodes) dropping Fall, 2011. You know, because George Lucas hasn't already dug deep enough into our pockets. Oh yeah, keep digging George -- there's a roll of all hundreds in there somewhere. Got it? Because that's totally my penis. Consider yourself deposited!
Hit the jump for a fanboy boner.
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Thanks to Darth Blaqk Panda and angelia, who used The Force to view this clip in their brains before it was ever publicly released.
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@1 no, u r n00b'st
"... and ... ACTION!"
I don't see the point of screaming like a little girl as some in the public did. Maybe they're enjoying the light of the saber ... Don't get it ...
I'm right there with you Zombo. It's like clapping at the end of a movie premier. Why do it? The directors and actors aren't there to hear you applaud...
i also concur it was cool to see footage not seen but jesus have some self respect lol
Making Star Wars Blu-Ray editions ain't like dustin crops, boy. It better be a 'Han shot first' edition.
I'm kinda done with star wars. How much longer can Lucas milk this shit?
crowdclimax...... this audience had one
I don't get why people scream at a deleted scene that shows a lightsaber... . Maybe if it was in C3 PO's ass i'd get funky myself...
@George Lucas was in the room...
Starwars is pretty much over with.......
Dont see anything big with this thing........
I like periods...........
anyone else feel HIGHLY SUSPICIOUS about this video? Vaders voice sounds off, you never even see Mark Hamill's face, and the chin-dimple is WAY more pronounced that Hamill's has ever appeared before.
someone is engaging in some shenanigans.
The thing is these people are fans (you know, people who get excited about stuff they like), and this scene has been the most rumored deleted scene since the early 80s when the movie came out.
Fans had been talking about if it even existed for years, and now here they are roughly 2000 people in an auditorium -with- John Stewart and George Lucas, being the first people to see this scene ever outside of a small group in the company.
I bet people were slipping on fan boy semen on the way out of the auditorium.
i have the VHS tapes of all 6 movies, I then turned around and downloaded all 6 movies to put on my dvds, when they come out on blue ray, i will download them again with out paying for them even though i dont use blue ray. I will do it just because of the fact that i have all 6 vhs and that gives me the licsense to own any of the movies in any media format LOLLOLOLOLOL fuck lucas in the ass. Gungan this biatch
Star Wars is completely milked out for me, I used to love it, but now I just want it to go quietly into the night.
Everybody is talking crap abut star wars fans and you all post on a site called geekologie.... pot calling the kettle..
George Lucas is a money grubbing asshole.
wow that was so amazing i also (along with mr shoutyman) developed a semi-on, ran down the street whooping with joy and clapped all my neighbours as they wiped tears of happiness away from their brows at my finally achieving a small but important stage on the way to a full erection....go me. WHHOOOOP YEAH clap clap...
eeeeee is it only me who think this scene was really bad ...
@24, nope, me too. I like star wars but its just a clip of DV using his jedi telepathy thing and luke with a lightsabre. Both of which you can see more than once in other parts of the movies. Its wasnt anything new and seems to me it was deleted for exactly that reason, cause it was boring.
I love how people cheered and clapped though. Probably the people born with the 'woo gene' . You know like people who cheer every time Tiger woods hits a golf ball (even if its into the trees) or those who cheer when someone with a microphone mentions the town or state they were born in. I think its a gene isolated just to americans. Could also be called the "patriot gene" because of its tendency to make the person think there HAS to be something, no matter how insignificant to cheer about because my life is so pathetic its the only thing stopping me necking myself.
Scene: Vader strolling to the bathroom.
Vader: Luke, you must join the darkside...uhhhh
Scene: Luke squatting in a cave.
Luke: Threepio, I need some sand to wipe my hiney.
*yes, unaccurate, but just as exciting.
NO I couldn't see it, it got copy write laws on it! Damn you youtube!
Hahahah! Now, back to my Ranch!
GW, fix the link, it's been taken down.
Here's a new link for the video
GW, the next time you post Lucasfilm'scopyrighted material, please remember that George Lucas is Geekologie's #1 reader, so it will be taken down in less than 1 hour...
I'm not going to let this one scene make me buy the Blu-Ray edition. I already have all six movies in widescreen dvd, and besides, everybody knows Luke constructed his second lightsaber in Shadows of the Empire.
@31 thanks!
Wow, now I understand why it was cut. That was a crap-scene. Only the mindless fans get raging erections about such a dead moment. (Luke's light saber) *SHWOOONG* YEAAAHH!!! <-crowd.
That was dumber then the last three movies.
@18, you will be breaking copyright law by downloading the blu-ray because the VHS did not include this deleted scene. BOO-YAH!!
OMG lucas you are a genius. a genuis at making geeky star wars virgins jizz themselves.
The actor was in the room idiot, mark hamill and George Lucas were both present and just 8 rows in front of me. We were cheering bc it was the first new footage from the originals seen in years and it was bad ass. Hate all you want you jealous fucktards but it was amazing fuck you and your grumpy old ass!
Damn copyright claim! Where else can I see it?
Working video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oaU1yu4PyZ0
George Lucas raped Indiana Jones
FAP FAP FAP FAP FAP FAP FAP FAP FAP FAP FAP FAP FAP.....lightsaber......FAP FAP FAP FAP FAP FAP FAP .........IGNITIOOOOOOOOONNNNNN!! *lights cigarette* Ahhhh dirty wookie tits! Now I need a new keyboard.
In Soviet Russia, classics destroy George Lucas.
Phantom Menace sucked ass, Clone Wars wasn't bad, but still meh, Revenge of the Sith was fucking awesome. A couple months ago A New Hope was being played on TV and a friend was over, (I have two TVs in my room, we were playing Borderlands on the other) and he pointed out how bad the light saber fight scene between Obi Wan and Darth Vader was compared to the light saber fights in Revenge of the Sith, which were amazing.
I feel a bit sad seeing as how this gives me cold chills. Damn I love star wars.
@45 Jaker
Yeah but in the context of the story it makes sense that the lightsaber battle in IV sucks compared to III. In III, you're seeing two of the best Jedi ever fight in their prime. In IV, you're seeing someone who is half man, half machine and barely alive battle an old man.
That wasn't Skywalker. It was his stand in.
Since Lucas blocked the YouTube video, here's the link to the original source guys. It's apparently a project by a team called The Screaming Monkeys (in French though) on the theme of anachronism.
Darn, sorry I had so many tabs opened I got confused with this one: http://www.geekologie.com/2010/08/if_the_empire_strikes_back_was.php
where the video isn't blocked, thus making my comment doubly irrelevant...
First of all, im a BIG fan of the classic star wars movies, not those remastered pieces of shit.. But i also think this clip is not from the original ROTJ. It just seems off, as mentioned here before. Darth Vaders helmet doesnt look like the old helmet.. it just looks newer.. And luke also isnt luke.. Its not his chin. Why would they make a scene of luke building a lightsaber and not show his entire face or without any lines or further explanation? That doesnt make sense. It just seems that lucas made the scene a few months ago and is yet again trying to squeeze out whats left in the Star Wars tit.
@52 I'm faxing you a beer right now for hitting the nail on the head.
Also, I have no doubt in my mind that this could have been shot at the same time ROTS was made. As far as I'm concerned, it is well within the realm of possibility.
I mean, having Vader say 'LUUUUuuuke.... LUUUuuuke...' over and over is so cheesy, I'm forced to believe that this line was recorded ten minutes after James Earl Jones was pepped up by Lucas to yell 'NOOOOOoooooooo!!!' into a microphone.
fucking lightsabers, how do they work?
Hope the Sandstorm makes it into Jedi.
Here is another working link.
it would be great to redo this scene with more focus on the risks involved with building a light saber and show how the force is necessary to align the harmonic resonance of the crystals.
Yes I'm a geek. I understand science and film. So sue me. But you will lose because I'm smarter than you.
"Luuuke...Luuuke...you have been in there for over 15 minutes. What are you doing in there?"
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I really enjoyed the main story from which the books gets its title-- I am Legend. However, I didn't care for the remaining stories. I like how Matheson shows the vampires as adapting and evolving. Matheson could have written and entire novel based on the I Am Legend short story.
Like others, I didn't realize my particular edition was simply a collection of I Am Legend and other short stories. So when I finished I am Legend, I was kind of taken aback that the story really was over. I wanted so much more out of the story-- there was so much that was left incomplete or unanswered.
I have to admit that I first read the I Am Legend story in 7th grade. It just might be this book that cemented my lifelong friendship with my best friend (let's just say more than 20 years later). Our teacher would read the story to us in sections. What bonded our friendship is that neither one of us could wait for the next day's passage and we were the only two in our class of 30+ that got the book from the library to read ahead. We bonded over the mocking way our teacher emphasized 'Come Out Neville!" (As a matter of fact, we still giggle over that.) Once we heard the movie was coming out, we both bought the book to re-read then went to the opening night of the movie.
Well the story held up over the years. No one is particularly likeable, but Richard Matheson spun the story in such a way that the reader is somehow drawn into rooting for the crotchety Neville. Back in the 7th grade, the ending was a shock to us. Now a days dystopian worlds aren't as novel, but the premise is solid. I own a copy now, and am sure I'll be reading this again. (The movie was a complete let down though:(
He is the last human on earth.
But he's far from the last humanoid.
Creepy and claustrophobic, this is a gem of the post-apocalyptic genre.
How could I have gotten away with never reading this book before? The writing is great, as expected, and the story didn't feel cliched, even though the basic concept--one man surviving an apocalyptic event that turned everyone into vampires--is everywhere nowadays. Many of the details feel slightly dated, but not so much to seem intrusive. All in all an enjoyable read.
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I chose I Am Legend for a variety of reasons.
I was curious as to how Matheson addressed the vampire theme in 1954, I wondered why a friend had chosen to read it and I had a challenge in a genre I don't usually read.
Oh!.... I don't want to forget the fact that it was a short book.
Whoa !... to the microbiological liberties taken with "bacillus vampiris."
I do give him credit for his scientific readings and even his attempts at extrapolation.
And, I can safely say I had no critiquing experience in the results of injection of essence of garlic into a blood sample....it just wasn't included in my curriculum.
That aside, he did eventually face head on, issues of isolation, depression and substance abuse.
He consistently overcame obstacles, only to be faced by new doubts and fear.
Since I'm not a connoisseur of the genre, I'll withhold any pertinent"critical" judgment.
But, I'm glad I finally took the time to read it.
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Mozzarella En Carozza
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Prep 5 mins
Cook 15 mins
This is a truly decadent sandwich! I saw this recipe being made on Food Network's Secrets of a Restaurant Chef and knew I had to make it as I love grilled cheese.
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- 3 large eggs
- 1⁄2 cup milk
- 1⁄4 cup parmigiano-reggiano cheese, grated
- kosher salt
- 2 balls fresh mozzarella cheese, thinly sliced
- 8 slices white bread
- peanut oil, for frying (If you have a nut allergy, use canola or a neutrally flavored oil)
- 1 cup all-purpose flour
- 2 tablespoons olive oil
- 3 garlic cloves, smashed
- 1 pinch crushed red pepper flakes
- 1 lemon, juiced
- 3 tablespoons capers, finely chopped
- 1⁄4 cup butter
- kosher salt
- 3 tablespoons chopped Italian parsley
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- Beat together the eggs, milk and Parmigiano-Reggiano in a medium bowl until they are a homogenous mixture.
- Season with salt, to taste, and reserve.
- Divide the mozzarella between 4 slices of the white bread.
- Put the remaining slices of bread on top of the mozzarella and press to close.
- Preheat the oven to 300 degrees F.
- Add peanut oil to a large wide skillet until it is at least a 1/2-inch deep. Heat over medium-high heat to 350 degrees F.
- Dredge each sandwich in flour and shake off the excess.
- Dip each sandwich generously in the egg/and cheese mixture.
- Work in batches, do this process to each sandwich just before frying, it's not a good idea to flour and dip ahead of time.
- Secure each sandwich with toothpicks.
- Put the first sandwich in the hot oil.
- Remove the toothpicks to turn and insert the toothpicks in the second side.
- When each sandwich is nice and brown on both sides, remove it from the oil and blot it on paper towels.
- Put it on a sheet tray with a rack and keep warm in the preheated oven. Repeat this process with each of the sandwiches.
- Cut the sandwiches diagonally into quarters, arrange on a serving platter and serve with the sauce.
- Sauce:.
- In a small saute pan combine the olive oil, garlic and crushed red pepper. Cook over medium heat until the garlic is golden brown and very aromatic. Add the lemon juice and capers and shake to combine.
- Swirl in the butter and season with salt, to taste. Toss in the parsley and serve immediately.
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Oh my good, gooey, gracious! The sandwich alone is gorgeous. The sandwich swirled in that decadent, buttery, tangy, silky sauce is a work of art! DO NOT miss this grown up take on grilled cheese!
Decadent is right! Couldn't have these often, but as a special treat it is an amazing sandwich. Eggy, cheesy, gooey, etc. I, too, left the capers out for the same reason as Noo :) But the sauce was still very tasty. Thanks for a new take on grilled cheese! Made for ZWT 7.
I have often caught Nigella Lawson on TV making these, and have been meaning to have a bash at it for ages.
There was only me for lunch today, so I grabbed the chance to indulge myself a little ( ok a lot!), so scaled the recipe down a bit to suit one person.
I went out and bought really cheap white bread ( Nigella's suggestion), as it's so pappy and doughy that it sticks together really well, doing away with the need to pin it together with toothpicks. I also cut the crusts off.
I really loved the soft gooey cheese issuing forth from the sandwich with every bite, and the way that the cheese just stretched itself out of the bread, like cheesy chewing gum!!
What really made this though was the sauce....I must admit that I left out the capers ( sorry, can't stand them!), but the buttery,garlicky peppery-ness poured over that sandwich was simply blissful, and really made it decadent.
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The Châtelet-Les Halles Train Station is within a 5-minute walking distance and offers regional trains and connections to both Charles De Gaulle and Orly Airports.
The surrounding area of Le Marais boasts traditional Parisian stores and restaurants. The Marché des Enfants Rouges Market is the oldest food market in Paris and can be reached using the Paris Metro in under 15 minutes.
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Camille is a very kind person. It is worth to mention his father, who ic often involved in managing the flats.
Our stay was perfectly organized. The father of Camille waited for us for two hours for giving us the keys of the apartment. Our train was too late, we arrived after midnight.
L'appartamento è molto carino ,funzionale,trovi tutto il necessario ,centralissimo (a pochi passi da Notre Dame ) luminoso,l'unica cosa sembrava dalle foto in internet un po' più grande e peccato che non ci sia l'ascensore.Lo raccomando a tutti ,il proprietario è molto gentile e disponibile.
The appartment was very pleasant. Clean and functional. Plenty of space for two adults and two children. Newly refurbished. While still retaining a certain authentic Paris atmosphere. The climb up the stairs with your bags can prove to be something of a challenge (six flights!). But even the stairs where beautiful and authentic. New kitchen and bathroom. Nice flat screen tv for moments when the city has you tired. No defects at all. The pull out sofa was well suited as a double bed for us adults as well as for the children. The location was fantastic. If you could throw a dart at the map of Paris trying to hit the centre of town, that is where it is at. Could not be more downtown than this. A lively neighborhood just around the corner of Centre Pompidou, Notre Dame, Hotel de Ville, Louvre at ten minutes walking distance etc. etc. Lots of shops, bars and markets right in the street. But no street noise in the appartment at all since it is situated at the inner court of the residential building. The boulangerie on the ground floor was perfect as well. Supermarket right around the corner was great for breakfasts and home cooking (very convenient with younger children). The owner of the building was very correct, very good english speaking and always reacted instantly on emails and calls. Once we stepped out of the Metro, short stroll to the location, a call on the cell phone of the owner and within 20 seconds we met up. Well done. Highly recommended.
comfortable apartment & helpfull owner. The biggest + is the location of the apartment right in the middle of the vived core of Paris! The neighbours are very friendly too btw!
hopefully till next time!
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The 17th Annual Conference of NEEA will be held under the auspices of the Dept. of Economics, Rajiv Gandhi University, Itanagar, Arunachal Pradesh in October, 2015
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(Re: Letter to the editor, "Amarillo loses again by rejecting smoke ban," by Robert Simmons, May 14.)
Simmons writes that the vote was not about freedom but selfishness.
I am deeply touched by Breathe Easy Amarillo's concern for my health. However, Simmons takes away from the very spirit in which our Constitution was founded. What part of "one man one vote" doesn't he understand? The people have spoken twice!
Resulting in insults is downright juvenile. If I'm not mistaken, Breathe Easy Amarillo collected $31,000 to promote the non-smoking ban. This was done by way of e-mails, mailings and other advertising. Again, the people are aware of the hazard concerning secondhand smoke. I'm am in no way trying to rain on Simmons' right to an opinion. All I am saying is that there are far more important issues we face as Americans: fuel prices, health care, emissions, etch.
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DETROIT (AP) — A federal immigration court judge delayed a hearing Thursday for a Detroit-area man suspected by the Irish government in the deaths of two United Nations peacekeeping soldiers in Lebanon in 1980.
Mahmoud Bazzi's initial immigration court appearance was rescheduled for Aug. 11 to give him time to hire a lawyer.
The native of Lebanon was arrested two weeks ago at his Dearborn home. He's accused of immigration violations linked to his arrival in the U.S. in the early 1990s.
Bazzi spoke in Arabic during his appearance via videoconferencing from the St. Clair County Jail, where he is being held by Homeland Security officials.
"If you do not wish to keep me here, send me to my country, Lebanon," Bazzi told Judge David Paruch through an interpreter. Bazzi, 71, later added that he "would like to be released."
Bazzi isn't charged with killing Irish soldiers Derek Smallhorne and Thomas Barrett. He insists he wasn't involved, but the Irish government for years publicly expressed suspicions about Bazzi.
Eamon Saunders, a counsellor of Justice and Home Affairs with the Ireland Embassy in Washington, D.C., was in the courtroom Thursday.
"It's something we're interested in, so we will be paying attention to it," Saunders said after the hearing.
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