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A culture defined by extreme hardship keeps its values simple and its instincts honed. "The hunter in the North, for whom fear and courage are interallied," writes Malaurie, "would smile if one talked to him about heroism." Indeed, he notes, there is no word for heroism in Inuit: "One lives...
But no one listens. Catastrophes proliferate. His father, who befriended Hitler during their student days in Vienna, expires in a blizzard, muttering "Mama." And Mama dies from tumors engendered by a radioactive mantelpiece. In his home town, a neutron bomb is accidentally exploded. The townsfolk die. The buildings remain.
The money rolls with reason Evita remains a wonderfully stylish, original and exciting show, its strengths overshadowing its weaknesses, though these are evident in the new production. The musical's lyrics offer a synopsis. Eva Duarte (Derin Altay) ("There was no place she'd been by the age of 15...
By the '60s writers were being encouraged, often paid substantial wages, to do everything but write. Updike lived through and withstood such pressures on his private labors. He withstood, too, the more chronic depredations on an American writer's productivity: drink, the extremes of isolation or cliquishness, and...
Last week Anna's parents received the first payment of an annual allowance that starts at $81,990 and will climb to $5.5 million if she lives to be 78, as her doctors say she could. Soon she and her parents will also collect $1.2 million, of which $650...