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...Cho Kalamazoo, Mich...
...partly the result of never having been alone before." Thus it was in 1973, after divorcing her second husband, that Deirdre Blomfield-Brown decided to change her name and her life by beginning a novitiate in the 2,500-year-old tradition of Tibetan Buddhism. Today Ane Pema Cho-dron, 47, whose name means "lotus dharma torch," is executive director of a meditation center in Boulder, Colo., and probably the only American woman to have been fully ordained as a Buddhist nun. The mother of two children and a former elementary school teacher in California and New Mexico, Chodron followed...
...good or ill, the current Broadway revival brings Williams down to earth. This time the moonbeams are paved with asphalt. Though Designer Ming Cho Lee has buttressed the Wingfield's St. Louis home with fleecy clouds, he has furnished it in a sturdy naturalistic style. Director John Dexter has paced the play to move one resolute step at a time, and encouraged the actors to deliver their lines with clarion force. This is a "solid" production, but it should be buoyant. The Wingfields imbibe a kind of emotional helium; only the guy wires of propriety keep them from floating...
...dust," wrote T.S. Eliot. The towering set that vaults above and plummets below the stage of Broadway's Brooks Atkinson Theater shows us fear on the inscrutable face of a perpendicular wall of stone and ice, pockmarked by eons. The hand-held camera that scales Designer Ming Cho Lee's awesome set is the playgoer's eye, restored to a 20/20 vision of the power, mystery, majesty and menace of undomesticated nature...
...idea of happiness, Hitchcock once said, was "a clear horizon, no clouds, no shadows. Nothing." Given a choice, it seems possible that he would have cho sen to live in a blank world rather than a chance universe, where the evil and the unexpected? perhaps they were the same thing to him ? could suddenly crowd in upon one, where everyone knew he was guilty of something, if not necessarily what he was being punished for. It is a measure of his achievement that he lit erally made light of these dark feelings, miraculously transforming them into deft and graceful popular...