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Each member of the cast shines with individual talent yet blends together well with the others onstage. Wolfsdorf and Little, as Alexis and Aline, give melodious performances that are a bit short on serious acting but big on charm. Their parents, played by Cooper and Kollmuss, delight the audience with their pining adoration for each other masked by their noble haughtiness. While Driscoll's voice is not as strong as the others,' his kind and dreamy demeanor makes the Vicar's character an instant favorite, drawing both sympathetic sighs and peals of laughter from the audience. Tattenbaum and Sheflin...
...process is so easy and informal that people treat it as they do conversation. "It's a never-never land between talking on the phone and writing," says Argenti. But as informal as it may be, E-mail is writing and constitutes a permanent record, to the eternal delight of any number of plaintiff lawyers and special prosecutors. (Yes, your company reads your E-mail.) In that regard, E-mail is a bit like a conversation at the water cooler that can be instantly forwarded to 500 people. And because so much of human conversation is nonverbal, E-mail messages...
...Kabila's troops surge west, his message of economic prosperity and political stability is greeted with immense enthusiasm. That, plus his military victories, may soon catapult him into the presidency of Zaire. But in recent weeks the delight has been tempered by a sense of trepidation. As Zairians contemplate the possibility of getting rid of one despot, they shudder at the prospect of replacing him with another. "If Kabila were in power," muses one surgeon in Kinshasa, "we would have to make him understand that we do not want to live under dictatorship. I have suffered so much. I cannot...
...probably succumb to a natural temptation to divide the "good kids" from the "hip-hop kids." I'm not buying it. I grew up listening to hip-hop. In elementary school I tuned my radio to the techno-influenced chant Planet Rock and innocent party jams like Rapper's Delight. By high school and college, hip-hop was everything from the pop female braggadocio of Salt-n-Pepa to the black nationalism of Public Enemy. Today, in addition to music that ranges from alternative rock to techno, I listen to rough-edged rappers the Wu Tang Clan--and, yes, Biggie...
Alas, much more is lacking. Helfgott, who as a teenager showed much promise until a breakdown sent him off to mental institutions for 12 years, is now scarcely more than a pathetic sideshow attraction, put on display by his promoters and his wife for the delight of the undiscerning, if adoring, audiences who found Shine so moving. This was evident last week when Helfgott, who will be 50 in May, appeared before a capacity crowd of 2,600 in Boston's Symphony Hall to play his first U.S. recital. His handlers dubbed the evening a "Celebration of Life," but they...