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Pitilessly astringent, formally exact, observant, pessimistic and skeptical of "progress," Naipaul can also be, at times, intolerably nasty: Who but Naipaul, when asked what the red dot on a Hindu woman's forehead signified, would answer, "It means My head is empty"? Naipaul doesn't suffer fools gladly, and to him the world is full of fools. Fuller, perhaps, than it really is. But he has been known to hit targets that few others would touch at the time: witness, for instance, his scarifying treatment of the ugly pretensions of English "black power" in the 1960s, in The Return...
...baker, a nurse, a boatman, et al. Their appearances are brief, their depth non-existent; they exist to the audience only as they exist to George. Yet George, who skillfully observes his subjects—effortlessly taking them apart and agonizingly putting them back together by painting tiny, meticulous dots on an enormous canvas—cannot use his keen perception to control his own life; he ultimately fails in his relationship with his lover, Dot, who requires more than a lover who “cannot look up from his pad.” The show?...
...Dot, Maryann Zschau easily navigates the vocal difficulties posed by Sondheim’s compositions, especially shining in the titular rapid-fire opening number. If her acting is not ideally nuanced, she never strikes a false note, and her powerful voice and lush tones are a delight. She is even better in act two as Marie, the aged grandmother of the 20th century George, who serenely mesmerizes with “Children and Art,” a simple, almost lullaby-like song, that discusses the only worthwhile things for a person to leave behind...
This success is even more impressive when it’s considered that the company was run independently for the first year. Like innumerable other dot-coms, its revenue consisted solely of advertisements and small venture capital gains. Then, a corporate takeover was intiated by Delia’s, an online teenage retail store, in early 2000. The latest acquisition by publishing giant Barnes and Noble in March 2001, however, promises to revolutionize Sparknotes forever. Rumors abound that the takeover will mean that Sparknotes online will no longer be free and that Barnes and Noble is envisioning the study guide...
Stone says she has not planned beyond her year with the Nieman Foundation, conceding that she is part of the “dot-com dead pool...