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Every white South African city and town, even the smallest dorp (village), has its Soweto, its KwaThema, its satellite township where the blacks live. It is where the paved road ends and the dirt begins. Asphalt highways cut through Soweto, but the side streets disappear quickly into dust or mud. In the shantytowns, children and old women gather at water points to fill plastic bottles and cans, which they balance atop their heads with hip-swaying confidence as they walk home along potholed paths. The smaller the township, the fewer the amenities. Some communities have only a few electric lights...
...Pillow Book For a film about sexual, romantic and literary obsessions, in which a Japanese woman literally inscribes the book of love across the bodies of men, director Peter Greenaway and his production designers, Wilbert van Dorp and Andree Putman, provide the ultimate in layered looks. Japanese calligraphy cascades down split screens; inserts open within larger images like windows on a computer screen. The visual stringencies of old Japan meet the clutter of the global village. In a word: fascinating...
BORN: March 27, 1958, Staten Island EDUCATION: State U of New York at Albany, B.A., 1980, M.A., 1982 FAMILY: Husband, Bill Paxon; one child RELIGION: Roman Catholic MILITARY: None OCCUPATION: Political aide POLITICAL CAREER: New York city council, 1985-90; U.S. House, 1990- ADDRESS: P.O. Box 060248 New Dorp Station, Staten Island...
Majmudar, a Staten Island, N.Y. native, had finished her tennis career at New Dorp High School with a 105-1 record, her loss coming in her very last match. She had won the city singles championship all four years. Her play on the junior circuit had made her the 27th-ranked player nationally in the Girls 18s singles...
...pity to his portrayal, Rouse gives the audience something to which they can relate, allowing us to feel for and sometimes even root for a man capable of murder and deceit. Dressed like an Olympic coach from the former Soviet Union, Alexis Susman as the Dutch psychic Helga Ten Dorp, delivers the play's most amusing lines with appropriate timing and sense of mock seriousness. Benjamin's slick, swaggering and sleazy charm make him a convincing pretty-boy writer and conspirator...