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...fine details as well as its broadest aspects, Michael Jackson's dream world has been under construction for 25 years, and its chief architect has not rested yet. Katherine Jackson likes to say her family got into show business because the only other available outlet for communal fantasy, the television, broke one day. "You know children; if they don't have TV to watch, then they have to do other things," says their mother. She may be oversimplifying some, but a blown-out television is not so readily replaced in the home of a Gary, Ind., steelworker with a family...
...inter changeable nature of the roles paradoxically both aids and hinders the overall performance. Because each actor has the opportunity to taken on the role of the "nobly born" dying victim, the cast creates an appropriately communal feeling. Yet because the roles are so amorphous and indistinguishable, it is difficult for any one actor to shine...
Such lines undeniably make for classic literary readings and interesting philosophical analysis, but they are difficult to convey successfully even in the small, communal setting d'Estree constructs. We can only endure so many renditions of "O nobly born, do not be afraid" before the intended effect backfires, and as a result we find ourselves getting restless. Even though the show runs for only one hour. Tibetan Book of the Dead at points seems endless...
Precocious 12 years olds may indeed be ready to tackle differential calculus at the level of elementary math courses here, but are they socially prepared to live in a communal living environment with peers six years their senior. Are they even truly qualified at an age where many have yet to reach puberty to make such decisions...
...Village of four years ago has been turned into a prison, a conversion that required little change in atmosphere. The athletes' quarters in Sarajevo have the mood of a small town, complete with landscaped square, where the flats are small but pleasant. The knotty-pine floors of various communal rumpus rooms (chess, billiards, video games, television, dancing) give the area a fragrance to compete with the common smell of burning brown coal permeating the countryside. At the sight of one game in particular, Americans are inclined to smile: a hockey machine worked by levers, with little U.S.A...