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...meetings with lawyers, unreturned calls to charities and memorial services for Greg's colleagues. (In Greg's lunch club alone, only 3 of 8 survived the attacks.) Nearly 500 condolence cards need answering--some from people who met Greg just briefly in a four-day management seminar in August, one from a grade-school classmate recounting how Greg owned the first skateboard on the block. When she comes up for air, Nicole calls to check on Greg's best friend and colleague Michael Cantatore, so sick with grief and guilt that two weeks ago he had a grand mal seizure...
...keeping a diary for the first time since high school. The story she spins recasts the past in a way that makes Greg's death inevitable because, of course, it was so absurd. She thinks she was preparing herself for a time without him: like the day in August when she asked him for the password to access the family budget on Microsoft Money, or when she inquired about how to change a tire and he sent her an AAA card embossed with her own name--not his. The narrative turns on the night of Sept. 10. Greg got home...
Your story "the feel-good remedy" about how Broadway shows have bounced back since Sept. 11 noted that "even such gloomy dramas" as August Strindberg's Dance of Death are doing strong business [THEATER, Oct. 29]. To judge from the laughter and applause filling the Broadhurst Theater the other night when I was there, Ian McKellen and Helen Mirren have transformed the play into a dance of life. No wonder it's resonating with audiences just now. ALEXIS XENAKIS Sioux Falls...
...August, the Soviet Union invaded Czechoslovakia with 200,000 Warsaw Pact troops, ending the Prague Spring...
...August, the Soviet Union invaded Czechoslovakia with 200,000 Warsaw Pact troops, ending the Prague Spring...