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...year on, the reality is vastly more complicated. In some ways, business is brisk. The new Iraqi dinar has shown surprising strength, given the violence, rising 30% against the dollar since it was introduced by U.S. officials last December, as Iraqis have begun to earn and spend far more money than ever. Baghdad's stores--depleted by the embargo--now have stacks of televisions, microwave ovens and Dell computers, and satellite dishes are propped on the balconies of most Baghdad apartment blocks. The roads are jammed with BMWs and Mercedes freshly imported from Dubai. In February another item banned...
...another brisk New England winter draws to a close, one more of Harvard Square’s beloved blossoms has been killed by frost, never to unfurl its tender petals again. But this frost is not the same frost that snaps at the ears of red-cheeked students; it is rather an icy Cantabrigian apathy that has gnawed upon many of the Square’s most august institutions. The dead flower is the Grolier Poetry Book Shop...
...sane characters in normal situations, but anybody who stages a play about delusion doesn’t have the benefit of that automatic connection with the audience. Instead, that connection has to be established by the company in other ways: by keeping the play’s pace as brisk as can be, by making its themes and symbols clear and satisfying and by making sure that all artistic elements beyond the text are as riveting as can be. It is easy to get hooked by a boy-meets-girl story; it’s a lot harder...
...marble the chessboard was made of. Spassky, the cog in the Soviet machine, was a genial, sensitive fellow who liked a drink once in a while. He was Ali to Fischer's Foreman. Of course, Fischer ate him alive. Bobby Fischer Goes to War tells the story in fine, brisk style, interpreting the red-hot chess-fu action--the Ruy Lopez opening! The Nimzo-Indian defense!--for us nongeniuses and conveying the richness of the world beyond the chessboard through details plucked from FBI and KGB records. We see, for example, Soviet experts whisking Spassky's orange juice back...
From here Darnielle eased into a brisk and easy rhythm, plucking songs from old cassette-tape albums whose names he (but not members of the audience) had forgotten, and dotting the music with brief bits of personal anecdote. The poignant story he told prefacing “The Young Thousands” was about the little racehorse his mother bet on against better judgment who went on to win the race. But before he got caught up in sentiment for the steed, Darnielle gleefully interjected that even his victories were not enough to keep the horse from being sent...