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...DRAWER BOY Will anyone pay attention to a quiet, understated play about two middle-aged brothers living on a farm--in Canada? Oh, let's give it a try. Michael Healey's comedy-drama is beautifully paced and written, and the sentiment has some sly and unexpected edges. A popular success in Canada, the play had its U.S. premiere at Chicago's Steppenwolf Theater in a little-noticed production that featured two of the year's best performances, by Frank Galati (director of Ragtime) and Frasier's John Mahoney...
...century Sensoji temple, where you can check your odds of landing the big business deal by buying a fortune. Slip Y100 into the slot and shake a metal can until a numbered stick pops out. Ask a bystander to read the Chinese characters, match it to the correct drawer and pull out a fortune with English translation. The wise words on mine: "Getting a beautiful lady at your home, you want to try all people know about this...
...voyage simply by being one of the 20th century's greatest writers. A dazzling storyteller, his The Makioka Sisters, Shunkin, Some Prefer Nettles and The Key are all masterpieces. Unfortunately, The Gourmet Club (Kodansha International; 201 pages), a miscellany of six self-described short stories culled from a bottom drawer of the Tanizaki tansu, does not display the sensei at the top of his talents. Yet each of the pieces does reveal the characteristic marks and quirks of his oeuvre, both his genius and his grotesqueries, ranging from the mildly fetishistic to the downright kinky, and thus can serve...
...found an antidote soon after they felt their first symptoms. Terror squeezes you into a corner; fighting back, even with a superstitious gesture, sets you free. So people updated their wills and then tucked them away again, put fresh batteries in the flashlight but then stuck it in a drawer. "You're less likely to get blown up by a terrorist," said a Washington dad as he dropped his kids at school, "than to get run over by the mom in her SUV who's worrying into her cell phone about getting blown up by a terrorist." While the authorities...
...asked the audience to imagine an employee telling his boss, “I can’t find the letter you wrote. I’m going to burn the file drawer...