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Letterman treats his Midwestern roots with a mixture of ironic detachment % and affection. He visits his mother a couple of times a year; the last time was after this year's Indy 500. Letterman says he was tickled by the experience. He called the house at 7 p.m. and came...
Tens of thousands of homeless children haunt the alleys and boulevards of Brazil's major cities. "The typical menino de rua," says Roberto Jose dos Santos, who runs the Sao Martinho shelter, "is black or mulatto with lots of brothers and sisters. There is an alcoholic mother or stepfather. He...
This overall lack of unity is all the more frustrating because at least a few of the pieces capture the unique comic sensibility that informs her performances. In the better snippets here, Bernhard shows herself the best sort of critic of American popular culture and values--one who has unabashed...
This time Stoppard climaxes a splendid intellectual farrago with a poignant image of two couples dancing, literally and metaphysically, in the dark. One embraces in the dawn of the romantic 19th century, the other at the twilight of the nihilistic 20th. Both are confronting the little tragedy of death and...
The story of Gregory K. in Florida brought the debate onto the national stage, when he successfully sued to "divorce" the mother who had abandoned him in order to remain with the foster family he had been living with for nearly a year. His was a rare victory: more typical...