Sentences with phrase «millennium approaches»

At the climax of Millennium Approaches, the first half of Tony Kushner's Angels in America, an angel crashes through the ceiling.

I teach playwriting to undergrads, and I always assign my students Tony Kuschner's Angels in America, Part One: Millennium Approaches.

PROGRAM ORIGINALLY AIRED ON THIS DATE: Angels in America, «Millennium Approaches.»

NEW YORK — From novels by Thomas Pynchon and Umberto Eco to movies like «The Truman Show» and TV programs like «The X-Files,» conspiracies have filled the air as the millennium approaches.

A veteran of the theater stage, F. Murray Abraham has appeared in more than 90 plays, among them Chekhov's UNCLE VANYA (for which he received an Obie Award), TRUMBO, STANDUP SHAKESPEARE, the Italian tour of NOTTURNO PIRANDELLIANO (with Michele Placido), Susan Stroman's A CHRISTMAS CAROL, the musical TRIUMPH OF LOVE (alongside Betty Buckley), A MONTH IN THE COUNTRY, the title role in CYRANO DE BERGERAC, THE SEAGULL, OEDIPUS REX, CREON, ANGELS IN AMERICA (both MILLENNIUM APPROACHES and PERESTROIKA) THE RIDE DOWN WITH MT. MORGAN, WAITING FOR GODOT, THE CARETAKER, THE RITZ, SEXUAL PERVERSITY IN CHICAGO, DUCK VARIATIONS, A LIFE IN THE THEATER, PAPER DOLL, and THREE PENNY OPERA.

As a new millennium approaches, a unique opportunity exists to replace Cold War animosities, which have dominated the last...

As the new millennium approached, Ireland's fortunes continued to improve.

The foundation was doing well as the millennium approached.

Together, the works capture the rapid and revolutionary changes that took place as the new millennium approached, and demonstrate how artists reveal and interpret — as they have always done — their own times.

Not exact matches

How experience at Millennium Partners shaped Steve's investment approach.

Only a complete revision of how we approach educating both children and, yes, even adults in the way the world works, according to science and NOT supersti - tion, is going to give us the hope we so desperately seek in ensuring that the U.S. survives and thrives far into this millennium.

Bulman's favored approach to the millennium, however, is that of Paul Tillich.

Whereas most texts, even edited volumes, typically advocate a single position or strategic view, MissionShift differs most notably in its roundtable discussion approach to the topics addressed: global missions issues in the third millennium.

As Christians approached the beginning of the second Christian millennium (which, according to some authorities, they more correctly calculated to be the first day of 1001 AD), a huge crowd gathered in Rome, expecting the end of the world, and others flocked to Palestine to witness the Advent of the Savior as the Last Trump sounded.

WHO 2010, Antiretroviral drugs for treating pregnant women and preventing HIV infection in infants, Recommendations for a public health approach WHO Feb 2010, PMTCT strategic vision 2010 — 2015: preventing mother - to - child transmission of HIV to reach the UNGASS and Millennium Development Goals WHO 2010, Guidelines on HIV and infant feeding, an updated Framework for Priority Action (copyright WHO 2012) WHO / UNICEF / UNAIDS 2011, Global HIV / AIDS response — Epidemic update and health sector progress towards Universal Access — Progress Report 2011 WHO 2011, Global health sector strategy on HIV - AIDS, 2011 — 2015 WHO 2012, Programmatic Update — Use of Antiretroviral Drugs for Treating Pregnant Women and Preventing HIV Infection in Infants (versions available in English, French, Spanish and Portuguese) Yezingane Network and UNICEF, December 2010, updated July 2011, Infant feeding in South Africa in the context of HIV, Questions and Answers

The alliance of WASH Advocacy, a coalition of non-governmental organisations and network focused on improved water delivery and sanitation, has petitioned the Ministry of Sanitation and Water Resources to address open defecation and review its approach towards the attainment of the millennium development goals.

As the deadline for the millennium development goals approaches, experts writing in The BMJ take stock of the successes, failures, and oversights, and look ahead to the next phase — the sustainable development goals.

The results are published as the 2015 deadline for the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) approaches, with MDG4 (to reduce by two thirds, between 1990 and 2015, the under - five mortality rate) unlikely to be achieved by more than a handful of countries.

Yet despite intense interest in such cures over the millennia, whether religious or secular, scientific or mystical, none of the approaches based on mind or spirit has proven to be particularly effective.

The NRC asked the committee to summarize current scientific information on the temperature record for the past two millennia, describe the main areas of uncertainty and how significant they are, describe the principal methodologies used and any problems with these approaches, and explain how central is the debate over the paleoclimate temperature record to the state of scientific knowledge on global climate change.

Mike Wallace's talk was about the «National Research Council Report on the «Hockey Stick Controversy»... The charge to the committee, was «to summarize current information on the temperature records for the past millennium, describe the main areas of uncertainty and how significant they are, describe the principal methodologies used and any problems with these approaches, and explain how central is the debate over the paleoclimate record within the overall state of knowledge on global climate change.»

That makes it difficult for their prey to see them approach, and this has allowed them to survive for millennia in the polar region.

It appears the past millennia Holocene cooling trends in the Antarctic are approximately half way between the 11,000 - year Holocene plateau trend and approaching global cooling trends of the past four interglacial cycles.

The completion of the Human Genome Project and the emergence of high - throughput technologies at the dawn of the new millennium, are rapidly changing the way we approach biological problems.

But Sony is approaching this follow - up as more of a reboot than a sequel, recasting The Crown's Claire Foy as hacker Lisbeth Salander and leaping ahead to the fourth book in the Millennium series (itself a kind of reboot, given that it was written by David Lagercrantz, who took over after Larsson died of a heart attack in 2004).

A lot of distinct editing approaches this year: the musical trance rhythms of memory (Ali, Millennium Mambo), carefully calibrated shocks and discordances (Mulholland Dr.), an excited buildup to an unexpectedly mellow climax (Spirited Away).

The film manages to create a believable atmosphere in which it feels like the world is truly ending (helped slightly by our own approaching millennium).

«Platform of Associations in Charge of ASAMA and Post-ASAMA», an NGO in Madagascar that developed a comprehensive approach to achieve the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) by establishing partnerships between the national authorities and 66 other NGOs.

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Third millennium learning demands new pedagogical and technological approaches to using ICT for learning.

This essay examines in broad strokes what healthcare chaplaincy currently offers, reviews some of the current spiritual care assessment tools in use, introduces some new assessment approaches, and demonstrates how healthcare chaplaincy can help accomplish the UN Millennium Goals.

We could, hence, even go as far as saying that inventions like «PDF Expert» could potentially provide the international community with the tools it needs to further approach the achievement of one or more of the Millennium Development Goals.

I would say putting people first, improving wellbeing by including all and eradicating poverty via holistic and sustainable approaches are focal points which in many ways are not separated from my strong commitment to vulgarizing education, sharing and learning, communication, cultural exploration and inter-cultural dialogue, art, environmental protection and broadening the use of transformational technologies as a way of combating poverty, achieving millennium development goals and reducing suspicion and development lapses in Africa and the world.

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As we approached the new millennium, we saw massive investments in the technological infrastructure of the nation's elementary and secondary schools.

Driving enthusiasts complained that these Celicas weren't very sporty, however, so Toyota tried a different approach for the new millennium by introducing a far racier machine.

While Frieze and Frieze Masters in Regent's Park are the place to be this week, visitors at any time of year should carve out some time to experience the Switch House, the major new addition to the Tate Modern, best approached on foot across the Millennium Bridge to the South Bank.

The exhibition will showcase artists of the new millennium and offer a fresh approach to contemporary art by also expanding the viewing experience into the online realm.

The eleven artists juxtapose divergent approaches in conversation with each other, reflecting on primal questions consuming artists over the millennia: Elliot Arkin's conceptual use of web - based commerce spins an absurdist view on the commodification of artists; Babette Bloch's stainless steel reassessments of nature and artistic precedent limn positives and negatives through light; Christopher Carroll Calkins's street photography captures moments of under - the - radar narratives; Valentina DuBasky's acrylic and marble dust works on paper and plaster are a contemporary comment on the prehistory of art; Gabriel Ferrer's performance - like in - the - moment sumi - ink drawings on handmade paper reflect on memory and personal narrative; Christopher Gallego's realist, pure light - filled oil painting elevates the ordinariness of an artist's space to visual poetry; Ana Golici, in pergamano and collage, takes inspiration from 17th Century female naturalist, entomologist and botanical illustrator Maria Sibylla Merian to explore questions of science, nature and objective truth; Emilie Lemakis's monumental amplification of an ancient Greek krater employs scale to upend perceptions for the viewer's reconsideration; Mark Mellon's bronzes address the oppositions of movement and stillness; the alchemy of Michael Townsend's uncontrolled poured acrylic paintings equate the properties of materials with the turbulence of the universe; Jessica Daryl Winer's engagement with luminous color and choreographic line reflects in visual resonance the sonic history of a musical instrument.

The show included pieces from 17 artists who, in their refusal to allow the viewers to define or even meter time by artworks, reflect a singular approach that characterizes our cultural moment at the beginning of a new millennium.

Paleontological records indicate that global mean sea level is highly sensitive to temperature (7) and that ice sheets, the most important contributors to large - magnitude sea - level change, can respond to warming on century time scales (8), while models suggest ice sheets require millennia to approach equilibrium (9).

The period studied includes different levels of solar activity and therefore the semi-empirical model can be considered as a good approach for reconstructions in centennial and millennia scales.

As we approach the third millennium, our needs are different, and the ways of meeting them must be correspondingly rethought.

Earth's response to climate forcings is slowed by the inertia of the global ocean and the great ice sheets on Greenland and Antarctica, which require centuries, millennia or longer to approach their full response to a climate forcing.

Artists have used paper for millennia and in many different ways, yet as these pieces illustrate, there's always more opportunity for fresh ways of thinking and innovative approaches to achieve spectacular results.