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...critic James Wood has pointed out that the decline of the Bible's authority in the 19th century coincided with the rise of the modern novel. Elie reminds a wistful 21st century reader how urgently books used to matter. Books--by Dante, Blake, Flaubert, Dostoyevsky, Tolstoy, Joyce, Jacques Maritain, Etienne-Henry Gilson and hundreds of others--served as spiritual guides for Elie's quartet in their journeys, shaping them in a life-or-death way that one senses would not be possible...
...Crimson Arts theater critic Stephanie E. Butler can be reached at sbutler@fas.harvard.edu...
...statement welcoming it to the South Bank, and accepting an invite to the opening party, where he can schmooze with Jade Jagger, David Bowie, Jimmy Choo, Chelsea Clinton and the featured artists, but possibly not Saatchi himself - by all accounts no party animal. He may want to avoid his critics. Philip Dodd, director of the Institute of Contemporary Arts, said recently the Saatchi Gallery was "dedicated to the recent past" and the Young British Artists (a Saatchi coinage) were "a very '90s story." London art critic Brian Sewell finds it "extremely difficult" to regard the Saatchi collection...
...Dave Barry meets Monty Python this is not. The amateur quality of some of the weaker sketches—from little Timmy getting his first boner for Chistmas to a sexually-charged nightclub act—may make a critic cringe, but the tempo of the whole show is so upbeat that the players are largely forgiven their comedic sins...
...Crimson Arts theater critic Sandra E. Pullman can be reached at pullman@fas.harvard.edu...