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Events: The white whale of technology Laurie Anderson is back - and this time, she's bringing us `Moby Dick'. She swaps tales with Hugh Aldersey-Williams
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Well, I did this interview the other day. And it was with. Laurie
Anderson. And she said things like: "I've just written the entry on
`New York' for the Encyclopedia Britannica." And: "The Egyptians were
very fond of broiled ibis." And I said. "Uh-huh, uh-huh."
Gosh. This is easy, isn't it? For the first time, I begin to
wonder if the lilting, hypnotic reportage that has been the trademark
of the New York musician and performance artist Laurie Anderson over
20 years isn't a bit facile...
Related newspaper, magazine, and journal articles from HighBeam Research
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Call Her Ishmael; Laurie Anderson Meets 'Moby Dick'
The Washington Post
; Today we look around the office and wonder: Who is it? Who will be the first in this pressure cooker to go postal and take out a half- dozen of us? Herman Melville spent long months in one of the great pressure cookers of his time, the intense life and closed circle of the whaling boat, which
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CALL ME ANDERSON; AVANT-GARDIST TAKES ON MELVILLE'S `MOBY DICK'.(L.A. Life)
Daily News (Los Angeles, CA)
; Byline: Reed Johnson Staff Writer Laurie Anderson remembers reading ``Moby Dick'' as a high school student. She also remembers being ``kind of bored, actually'' by parts of Herman Melville's long-winded nautical yarn. Here was this 500-page story about this vengeful maniac, Capt. Ahab, and his
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The Arts: The reinvention of the whale Laurie Anderson is bringing her techno-operatic staging of Moby Dick to the UK. But would Herman Melville recognise his epic novel?
The Independent - London
; After feasting on Laurie Anderson's Songs and Stories from Moby Dick, it will be difficult to resist going back to Herman Melville's 19th- century epic of fear and loathing on the high seas. This gutsy techno- operatic version, which has its UK premiere at the Barbican next Tuesday, is awash with
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Laurie Anderson harpoons herself some difficult listening
The Village Voice
; Here's a small detail. In her musical rereading of Moby Dick, Laurie Anderson has a cast member quote from an obscure sermon delivered early in the novel: "So what is a man if he outlives the lifetime of his God?" The program notes that she's written-also cite the line, commenting: "Yes, really.
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Events: The white whale of technology Laurie Anderson is back - and this time, she's bringing us `Moby Dick'. She swaps tales with Hugh Aldersey-Williams
The Independent - London
; Well, I did this interview the other day. And it was with. Laurie Anderson. And she said things like: "I've just written the entry on `New York' for the Encyclopedia Britannica." And: "The Egyptians were very fond of broiled ibis." And I said. "Uh-huh, uh-huh." Gosh. This is easy, isn't it? For the
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Soup of the Gods; Laurie Anderson comes to Big Sur on Tuesday.
Monterey County Weekly
; Laurie Anderson is the undisputed heavyweight of performance art. Granted, to most, this title carries slightly more weight than say "high queen of turkey bastersbut make no mistake, Laurie Anderson is one of the most unique artistic geniuses of our time. Don't believe me? Stick any one of the
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`Moby Dick' eludes PBS producers.(Metropolitan Times)(Arts & Entertainment)(Television)
The Washington Times
; Herman Melville's Moby Dick is a book that thrills and delights the reader on several levels. Unfortunately, the Learning Channel's Great Books program examining this masterpiece cannot say the same. As an adventure story, Moby Dick stirs the blood with its epic struggles of man against raging
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'MOBY DICK' THREATENED WINTER POND'S ECOLOGICAL BALANCE - AND THAT'S NO FISH TALE
The Boston Globe
; When my son and I first dubbed the giant koi we saw in Winter Pond "Moby Dick," little did we know the strange saga that was about to unfold. And when, after several years of trying, I finally got a clear photo of him as he swam circles around my canoe, I was totally unprepared for the legs this
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STEWART PROVES TO BE A CHOICE CAPTAIN IN `MOBY DICK'.(What's Happening)(Review)
Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Seattle, WA)
; Herman Melville couldn't have known it, but he was writing for Hollywood when he gave the world ``Moby Dick'' in 1851. John Barrymore brought the monumental story to the cinema in a silent film called ``The Sea Beast'' as early as 1926. Barrymore tried again with the first ``Moby Dick'' talkie four
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`Moby Dick' Collapses Yet Again
The Washington Post
; After Mr. Moby Dick rallied for his second straight victory today, owner-trainer Barbara Kees left Pimlico wondering what went wrong. For the second time in his three-race career, Mr. Moby Dick collapsed after finishing a race here, and he did it in a way that perplexed his stable and track
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