Word: aptness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...watched coverage of the death of Diana with sadness, and although I am not religious, I wept watching the funeral of Mother Teresa. A billboard in Calcutta bore the apt legend: MOTHER, 1910-ETERNITY. I feel that Mother should have been accorded a special commemorative issue of her own, with her wonderful face on the cover. Both were great women, but Mother Teresa was truly a living saint. BONNY LUSTED Cape Town...
...ragtime pianist turned antiracism firebrand. Composer Stephen Flaherty and lyricist Lynn Ahrens supply a score alternately catchy (the ragtime numbers) and affecting (a wife's proto-feminist lament, Back to Before). And director Frank Galati and choreographer Graciela Daniele have created stage pictures that are both lovely and thematically apt, from the exquisite opening dance in which three groups--blacks, immigrants and parasol-toting white society--circle one another warily, to J.P. Morgan on a walkway that slowly descends to crush the admiring workers below...
...clubs are souring. The Radcliffe Women's Action Coalition (RADWAC), a task force of the Radcliffe Union of Students, conducted a postering campaign against the clubs over Junior Parents Weekend in March. "Support Your Local Bastion of Classist Patriarchal Elitism--Go to a Final Club Party," read one apt sign...
...seller this summer with Los Alamos, a compelling and literate murder mystery from first-time novelist Joseph Kanon. Set amid the wartime development of the first atom bomb, the book has been compared to E.L. Doctorow's Ragtime for its intermingling of real and fictional characters. But a more apt comparison might be to the film Chinatown, with its small-scale moral muddles foregrounding grand-scale moral muddles...
...ever said summer was the season for gravitas. So it is not surprising that publishers reserve their books of substance--tomes with titles like Hitler's Willing Executioners--for distribution during the months of the year when one is less apt to read in the company of a wine cooler. If Dostoyevsky had had a marketing consultant, she would have positioned Crime and Punishment for a November release...