The new production of director Elena Nevazhina and the artist Alexander Borovsky at the theater under the leadership of Oleg Tabakov "100 Yen for the Service" - a spectacle for gourmets. The small scene is hidden from the auditorium with a white curtain. On it - the broken lines of the branchy sakura, the sunset mandarin sun. A soft rod of drums, gong, rustling rubbing reed sticks against each other. A new performance, like a real Japanese picture, is impressive with laconicism.

Books at the head - 4 Reading Bourdieu with Mikhail Gronas (UFO #45) Rebekah Frumkina Publication date: December 18, 2000 There are books that can only be overcome if you keep them at your head for a long time. However, this does not always help. About five years ago I made several attempts to read various books and articles by Pierre Bourdieu , and also tried to get to him through texts that interpreted him in one way or another.

Information technology experts and members of the hi-tech industry are groping around in the dark, bumping into corners, trying to figure out what to expect from a future in which George W. Bush is president. Opinions vary. There is an opinion that Bush will not put pressure on the information technology sector because he is an intelligent person (a questionable thesis, it should be noted).

Listed in the Red Book, or Praise of Spirituality Alla Yarho Publication date: December 18, 2000 Father: Well, if we are talking about spiritual values... 4-year-old son (with joyful hope): Are these the ones in the oven? Conversation at the table I want to stand up for our Soviet spirituality. I emphasize precisely the Soviet one, because my generation lived its entire life within Soviet reality and did not know any other.

Business and the state under Putin: the formation of a new system of relationships Alexey Zudin Publication date: December 18, 2000 Since the election of Vladimir Putin as President of the Russian Federation, the country's leadership has been trying to build an updated model of relations with large Russian capital.

Criminal romance and home-grown Bach. Swim #3 Review of paper press on culture Vahit Karkyraev Publication date: December 18, 2000 Monday is a hard day, but Sunday is even harder for newspapermen. Happy are Kommersant , Nezavisimaya Gazeta and Vremya-MN , whose employees spend a legal day off with their families. The rest have to go to work, and this significantly affects the efficiency of, for example, theater critics.

Ilya Utekhin . Essays on communal life. - M.: OGI, 2001 (series "O.G.I / Polit.ru"). - 248 pp.; circulation not specified; ISBN 5-94282-002-3. The 30-year-old St. Petersburg philologist and rock poet subjects the iconic space of a modern communal apartment to total deconstruction. The monograph, stuffed with semiotic barbarisms, might seem mocking if in the epilogue entitled “Notes on an Observer,” Utekhin did not deconstruct himself.

The Returned Cardinal Vitaly Portnikov Publication date: December 18, 2000 who died last week, will be buried in Lviv On Wednesday, the high priest of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church , Cardinal Miroslav-Ivan Lyubachivsky, . He became the second Ukrainian cardinal in history: the first was Lyubachivsky’s predecessor as head of the UGCC, Joseph Slipoy, who spent many years in Stalin’s camps.

Who framed the President of Ukraine?

In today's "News Time" , Alena Solntseva rejected the translation of the British superbesseller "Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone" (M.: Rosman). At first, the review seemed negative to me: "This is the analogue of" McDonald's "..." However, having re -read the text, I realized that Alena (and Alenina's daughter) just liked food from McDonald's.

Jan Karski (1914-2000) - pre-war diplomat, during the war - a prisoner of Soviet camps, then - a legendary courier who liaised between the Polish underground and the exile government in London; During meetings in 1942 with US President F.D. Roosevelt, members of the British government and others, he was the first to transmit reliable information to the West about the extermination of Jews and about concentration camps in Poland.

Confusion instead of a review Sometimes it seems like everything is fine. An ideal subject for meditation. The raking hands of Lev Pirogov. Hot Estonian project. Educational program for the gentlemen from Kronos. When it doesn't seem like everything is fine anymore. Kirill Kutalov-Postoll Publication date: December 18, 2000 And sometimes you stop, look at the plowed field and think that life is good.