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...prize of the collection is a haunting story called The Runner, in which an ordinary man tries earnestly to bridge the spiritual distance between himself and his long-absent sister, legendary in Arizona for making all but impossible runs over ancient, barely visible Anasazi trails in the Grand Canyon. Her descents are a kind of Zen archery, only partly physical. Lopez, who's far too shrewd to bring the fey sister onstage, leaves the reader with a mysterious image: the woman, running on her toes like a deer, glimpsed by rafting vacationers, and then, downriver beyond impassible rock walls, glimpsed...
Still on the phone with Continental, Wardell noticed that the intruder was picking up items on the absent roommate's desk...
...problem of absent pocket schedules results, ironically, from an effort by shuttle services to make them more useful, Tempesta said...
...dress rehearsal, but the seams don't show. From first note to last, Liaisons is a finely polished work that achieves a French transparency, sparingly invoking Debussy (not Pelleas but Images pour Orchestre). Unabashedly tonal, although hardly reactionary, the score glows with a luminescence too long absent from modern opera, and especially opera in English; for an equal, one must go back to Britten's Death in Venice (1973), which Liaisons resembles musically in many small ways...
...care into her show, the more so because of her supercilious attitude towards potential detractors. In "Without You I'm Nothing" Bernhard involves her audience in her to-hell-with-what-anyone-thinks attitude, letting us in on her scorn towards snotty New York celebs, etc. This complicity was absent in her San Francisco show, and her snottiness felt directed at us. Instead of hinting that we all were smarter than other people, her performance left me with the feeling that she thought she was smarter than...