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...serves. The play was inspired by the paintings of Norman Rockwell and the work of the avant-garde installation artist Jason Rhoades, and it's a witty, sometimes mystifying, often riveting mishmash of classic Americana and anarchic performance art. It opens with a recording of Bing Crosby singing "Dear Hearts and Gentle People," then slides into a series of Rockwellian scenes: a Thanksgiving dinner; a high school couple on a first date, accompanied by a recorded 1950s lesson in dating etiquette. In between, the actors create rickety constructions out of found objects (a football, a blonde wig, a skirt...
...Dear Ms. Laura Miller—About five and a half years ago today, I read an article of yours in the New York Times Sunday Book Review. Unlike the usual stuff of newspapers, which people read on Monday and by Sunday have moved on from, your article has had unusual staying power. In fact, it has remained with me, it has haunted me, until today—for six years of my total of 20, about a third of my lifetime! But today, today, I am going to exorcise your ghostly grip.You see, in the article that you wrote...
...feel much better for being rejected by Harvard. It is not because I am not good enough academically, it is because I was not born Latino. I am more than happy to bring my tuition money to a school that is truly merit based. —ajr2009 Dear Harvard, Based on my rejection of student status at Harvard, I would like to know whether there are any janitorial posts open at Harvard College? Considering you told me that I did not score well on a test of trivia—SAT/ACT—and relied on that...
...Dear soon-to-be-departing seniors...
Before a recent visit to my dear old mum, I purchased The Kindly Ones, by Jonathan Littell, a 992-page Nazi-palooza that, given the nearly 3-lb. weight of the new English translation, makes for an ideal Kindle selection. But when I got ready to buy it on Amazon, I blanched at the $16.19 price. Every Kindle text I've purchased since Amazon started selling the device in November 2007 has been $9.99. Indeed, that was one of the Kindle's main draws: you could buy books wirelessly, on demand and at a fraction of the cost of their...