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...Number the Stars,” Lowry explains the combination of inspiration and craftsmanship required in writing. “My characters come to me fully formed, with names. So, I always start by placing them in a situation where something is a little askew.”After her lecture, Lowry offered some words of caution in an interview. “Publishing is in dire straits because of the economy and technology,” Lowry warns. She feels the biggest pitfall, though, is more fundamental. “People who think they want to write children?...
...conveys with her eyes, from 50 feet away, a schadenfreude-inflected delight as she hovers over him. As the play spirals further into fantasy, the stage artfully descends further into ruin. In the beginning, props and staging are wheeled in and out neatly; by the end, furniture lies askew across the stage. We are surveying the ruins of order as the definition of place and belonging change forever. “Perestroika” begins with a rigidly demarcated world in which we know where everyone belongs—Mormons in Utah, gays in New York City. As the play...
...might expect of any news broken in an actual newsroom, the whole thing is captured on grainy video. One reporter holds a digital recorder; a photographer snaps away. The executives wear shirtsleeves with ties askew. When Swartz, looking not unlike a man condemned, says, "At the end of the sale process, we do not see ourselves publishing the P-I in print," he has to raise his voice to be heard over unanswered phones and garbled bursts from the police radio...
...little more dignity in sharing a couple of cocktails, some caviar and a good cigar on a yacht with Katherine Hepburn and Nunnally Johnson than there is in washing down your sugar-free seventy-fifth birthday cake with a can of Diet Pepsi and a SpongeBob SquarePants hat askew on your head...
Crossing the bay, the wetlands are dotted with a sofa here, a plastic garbage can there and suddenly along the causeway, a flotilla of beached, battered boats appears, awkwardly stuck in the median, wedged against highway signs, land-bound, askew and sad. Capturing the wholesale destruction of a hurricane is difficult. We learned that with Hurricane Katrina where the images, no matter how awful, were insufficient measured against the reality. The most overpowering sensation is the smell, a stench that seems to imprint itself on the brain's memory bank, suddenly wafting back hours after you have left the scene...