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Director and set-designer Katya Nelhams-Wright has created a claustrophobic environment where the entire play, set inside a public women's lavatory in future London, is enclosed in a cotton mesh cage. This effect at once alienates the audience by presenting a translucent physical barrier, and draws the audience in--with both the audience and the characters inches away from the mesh, one feels voyeuristic, peering in on the lives and private conversations of the all-woman cast...
...People's Republic of China is a power-shipper, material girl's paradise. At the free market near the Embassy district in Beijing (called alternately the Cotton Market or yifu--clothing--alley), J. Crew Barn Jackets sell, (after a little bargaining), for $10. Silk Ann Taylor Blouses, $5. Laura Ashley-esque sundresses, $3!! Who cares if the seamstresses worked double overtime for 2 cents an hour in steamy firetraps gluing the corduroy cuffs on that barn jacket Exploitation Shmexploitation. Where else you can find a trendy coat for one Alex Hamilton? Besides, by purchasing that fashionable item...
Four showgirls stride onto the Radio City Music Hall stage to play a fanfare. It is fitting that one of the strumpets with trumpets is chewing gum, for she and her sisters are introducing a supremely brassy babe. Crescendo! Curtain! Giant cotton-swab clouds! And there, radiant on a throne, sits the Arch Angel of Pop and Schlock. The message is clear: Bette Midler has lived up to her self-promotion. She is divine...
...several years to a patient's life -- at a cost of more than $100,000 a year. However, refinements may soon drastically reduce that to a far more cost-effective $17,000. Letha Mills, director of the bone-marrow transplant program at New Hampshire's Norris Cotton Cancer Center, is worried about the chilling effect that rationing would have had on the treatment's invention. "You can't just stop trying to develop new ways to cure people," she says...
Centuries of persecution and cultural isolation have turned the Maya into impoverished outcasts in their own land. At best, they are often reduced to tourist attractions; for a little money, Mexico's Lacandon Indians, for instance, will display their traditional white cotton shikur and long black hair. But condescension is the mildest of the abuses suffered by today's Maya. In a 1992 report on the indigenous peoples of the Americas, Amnesty International cited dozens of human-rights violations carried out by Mexican authorities against the Maya people of Chiapas: they include an incident in 1990 when 11 Maya were...