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...crowd of protesting monks, killing at least two and injuring many. From nearby towns came reports of more disturbances, news of which arrived in Mandalay on buses and trucks and spread with viral stealth through the city's network of trishaw drivers. Hiring one to check out the dark, deserted streets, I was struck by how well suited trishaws were to disseminating news. With me leaning forward in my seat and the driver bent slightly with the exertion of pedaling the rutted tarmac, he could whisper into my ear without anyone noticing, let alone hearing. He told me that eight...
...fundamentalism in India. "Religious fascism has taken roots in this soil," says Singh, a vitriolic opponent of the ruling Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party. Is the encounter between Bhagwan, the Western-educated agnostic, and Ma Durgeshwari, the Hindu godwoman, an allegory of modern Nehruvian India being seduced by the dark forces of religious fundamentalism? Perhaps. But if Singh the political thinker sees godmen as a danger to India's secularism, Singh the novelist is too deeply attracted to their charlatanry to remember that he's supposed to be warning readers to steer clear of them. "The message gets lost...
...made putty out the body of the nearly naked man on the screen by blending and doubling body parts as if they were emerging from mirrors. It made for an intriguing and somewhat mesmerizing effect which unfortunately overshadowed the movement of the dancers performing in the dark foreground of the screen. The dancers effectively drew attention to themselves when they threw large shadows onto the screen, indicating that the combination work could have benefited from some change in presentation technique...
...Stanley’s wife and Blanche’s sister. She’s not Williams’ most three-dimensional character, but Leahy interprets Stella as solidly as Williams allows. She’s a Stella who bestrides Stanley’s and Blanche’s dark worlds and somehow manages to remain a good and worthy person through it all—a Stella who contains both sensuality and sensitivity, reconciling them with a spirit of endearing fraternity...
...create a musical about assassinations through history, starting with Julius Caesar. They eventually narrowed it to assassins of U.S. Presidents--each of whom gets a moment in the spotlight, voicing grievances both real and imagined, poignant and farcical. Sondheim sees the show as a comment on the dark side of the American Dream. "If you are led to believe that you can be President, so to speak, and you find out that you can't--that you have mistaken the kind of idealized dream for reality--you're likely to get angry," he says. "And maybe likely to want...