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...movie theater it's playing in is almost worth the price of admission. It looks like a church, which isn't surprising because that's what it was built as. Then in 1913 or so it was converted into a legitimate theater and has since had a close brush with demolition in order to make room for a parking lot. Now it's being carefully brushed off and restored, its wood panelling, brass railings, velvet curtains and stained glass, window preserved for posterity. It's also probably the only movie theater that plays Gilbert and Sullivan between showings...
...clockmaker, amid all the stopped clocks of his shop, places his parchment ear against an out-of-tune grandfather's clock; a barber, with a dry brush, lathers the cheekbones of an actor learning his role, studying the script with hollow sockets: a girl with a laughing skull milks the carcass of a heifer...
...have long since been enshrouded by the myths of textbooks and the mists of hagiology. The most elusive figure in that gentlemen's club of revolutionaries was Thomas Jefferson. Henry Adams wrote that every other American statesman could be portrayed with "a few broad strokes of the brush," but Jefferson "only touch by touch with a fine pencil, and the perfection of the likeness depended upon shifting and uncertain flickers of semitransparent shadows." Many biographers have attempted to draw that chiaroscuro character, most recently Fawn Brodie in her Thomas Jefferson, an Intimate Biography. The result has been an overemphasis...
...dawn; and another enters to ape a train whistle by blowing into a set of three wooden pipes. When an 11-year-old Joe Crowell appears to deliver the morning newspapers, we spot another fellow crouching to create a swish-plop on the stage floor with a wire brush and a soft beater, while Joe mimes the act of delivery. And, again, we watch someone make the sound of rattling bottles and clomping hooves although Howie Newsome's horse and milk-carrier are invisible...
...White from the area, "peasants have been trickling into villages like tiny Bombar-dopolis, where they sit in eerie silence in the dirt courtyards and dusty streets hoping to find food and waiting for rain. In the village of Desforges, five miles to the north, children, too debilitated to brush away the flies and insects that swarm over their bodies, sit for hours outside mud and stick huts without moving or speaking. Until recently, many have eaten nothing but mangoes; their arms and legs are covered with running sores that never heal. Monique is a six-year-old boy shorter...