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...look pretty much the same. A corpse is uncovered early. Midway through, a prime suspect emerges, only to develop an unshakable (or is it?) alibi. At the climax, a recklessly brave detective confronts the cunning culprit and somehow elicits a confession. Any detours along this well-traveled route are apt to involve the jiggery-pokery of disguises, coincidences and undisclosed facts. To aficionados, however, the mystery is not one genre but many, and similarities of plot are far outweighed by differences of setting, texture and world view. The range of the form is demonstrated by five new novels, each from...
EMMA THOMPSON HAS THE OSCAR and Miranda Richardson had a nomination, but as Tinseltown audiences are discovering, the most interesting British stage actress of the under-40 generation has long been a waif-eyed, bassoon-voiced, ironhearted daredevil named Juliet Stevenson. U.S. audiences are apt to know her only from the cult film Truly, Madly, Deeply. But on the boards in London, her range is astonishing, from the hoydenish Rosalind in As You Like It to the nihilistic Hedda Gabler, from the sexually awakening adolescent of Troilus and Cressida to the avenging victim of Death and the Maiden. She approximates...
EARL WILD TOURED WITH, AND THEN REcorded, three synoptic all-Liszt programs, called "The Poet," "The Transcriber," "The Virtuoso" -- three apt descriptions for Wild himself. He's a throwback to the Golden Age pianists, exulting in the sensuality of Romanticism and the vertiginous, almost orchestral possibilities of the piano. Two CDs demonstrate his superb musicianship and rare virtuosity: Chopin: 4 Ballades -- 4 Scherzi and Earl Wild Plays His Transcriptions of Gershwin (Chesky Records). Chopin's works vary widely in mood and tempo, yet Wild sustains the long singing lines that provide their pulse and shape. That singing -- with wit, warmth...
Works of art about the underclass almost always entrap both creators and audiences in moral ambiguity. No matter how determined not to condescend, artists and spectators all but inevitably feel an anthropological distance from their subjects. This holds especially true in the theater, a medium the underclass is apt to avoid as alien and unaffordable. Certainly, few playgoers at Aven'U Boys, a violent and vivid series of vignettes set in Brooklyn, New York, that debuted off-Broadway last week, appear to share the despondent, nihilistic subliteracy of the title trio of Italian Americans in their late teens (played, with...
...uses it to maintain contact and get attention. "The way Alex uses English does not necessarily have all the aspects of language," says Pepperberg, "but it provides a two-way communication system that allows me to explore the way he thinks." At times his choice of words is touchingly apt, even if he uses phrases to get results rather than express emotion. When the parrot, who lives with Pepperberg, became sick a few years ago, she had to take him to a vet and leave him overnight in a strange place for the first time in his life...