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...servant Clov (Thomas Derrah) and immobile parents, Nagg (Remo Airaldi) and Nell (Karen MacDonald), who live in ashbins. Unable to move from his wheelchair, Hamm is at once in command of this bizarre family unit and yet powerless to fully control his own self. What ensues is the daily, almost ritualistic routine of these characters, who move towards no perceivable end other than death and are incapable of escape from the misery of their lives. Andromache Chalfant’s beautiful, austere set enhances this sense of powerlessness and inability to break out of a static life-in-death...
...limited head and hand movements. Their attribution as singers was something of a misnomer, however, meant rather to highlight the role of the voice in the performance than to indicate actual singing.In the last scene of “Corbu Pops,” a sole baby depended almost entirely on her voice to deliver a convincing, poetic monologue regarding forms, reflections, awarenessm the present, past, and future. But her poetic speech was punctuated by passionate, intermittent ejaculations of “Nigger!” She too then receded beneath her hole and even left the room. The door...
...Victoria Terminus railway station in Mumbai, they were stopped by police at a roadblock. Khan was killed, but Qasab was taken into custody, and he dictated a long confession to Mumbai police. TIME has obtained a copy. As a legal document, it is of questionable value; it was almost certainly obtained under duress and has been widely circulated. But as a narrative of the transformation of a country boy into a jihadist, it is believable and - more than that - important. Understand Qasab's story and you begin to understand why young men throw in their lot with Islamic extremists...
...Nariman House Jewish center. They were office clerks commuting back to the suburbs and migrant laborers waiting for trains to their villages. Those who died included Chandulal Thandel, a bookseller closing his stall in the station for the night, and a police inspector, Shashank Shinde, who came by almost every day to buy a magazine from...
...other gunmen had begun the siege of Mumbai, terrorizing the occupants of the Taj, the Oberoi and Nariman House. Qasab and Khan drove almost aimlessly through the streets. They ditched the police car, which had a flat tire, and took a white Skoda, ejecting three women without hurting them. Veering toward the sea, they bypassed the Oberoi on Marine Drive before being stopped by a barricade the police had set up ahead of them at the Girgaon Chaupati intersection...