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YOUNG PLAYWRIGHTS FESTIVAL. It's a bit like going to the U.S. Open for the girls' singles, hoping to spot next year's Capriati. This annual autumn event in Manhattan offers an evening of one-act plays by aspiring dramatists, who must be under 18 at the time of submission. The works, typically, are much ado about first love and sensitive, misunderstood youth; typically, also, at least one of the sketches shows potential genius struggling toward maturity. Through...
...delivery featherlight. And she can sing too, bringing her uniquely precise passion to ballads and down-home rave-ups. "I don't want life to imitate art," Suzanne says with her usual blithe exasperation. "I want life to be art." This comedy is art, as exhilarating as the first autumn breeze after a summer of movie bloat...
BELLE FICTION: In Praise of the Stepmother by Mario Vargas Llosa -- Would you believe an erotic family novel? The General in His Labyrinth by Gabriel Garcia Marquez -- The autumn of Simon Bolivar. Hocus Pocus by Kurt Vonnegut -- Meditations of a Vietnam vet in 2001. Buffalo Girls by Larry McMurtry -- Calamity Jane, Bill Cody and Sitting Bull whoop it up. Animal Dreams by Barbara Kingsolver -- Environmental catastrophe meets Native American mythology. The Final Club by Geoffrey Wolff -- Class warfare at Princeton during the 1950s. Philadelphia Fire by John Edgar Wideman -- Fictional characters caught up in the factual bombing of Move headquarters...
...looming: the ethnic and religious conflicts springing out of the dissolution of the Soviet empire could give rise to a new strain of the terrorist virus. The Soviets appear to be so worried about that possibility that they are sending two retired KGB generals to London this autumn to attend a conference on terrorism...
...clock struck midnight on a crisp autumn night nearly four years ago, Red Sox outfielder Dave Henderson had seemingly exorcised 68 years of demons that had plagued the team. After his towering leftfield home run in the extra innings of Game Six of the 1986 World Series against the Mets, only three outs stood between the Sox and their first championship since 1918. As Henderson circled the battle-scarred diamond, he made a weak and only half-successful attempt to subdue the thin smile that began to crease his face...