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...annual boat bash in Washington. The fifth Highlander (No. 4 was put up for sale in January) can cruise at 14 1/2 knots for up to 4,000 miles, but the New York-based vessel will be used almost exclusively for in-harbor excursions. "It's such a delightful facet of doing business," fizzes the energized owner, "despite the fact that yachts are not deductible as a business expense." For Forbes, living well is the best...
...shows now on Chicago stages, none is stunning, but each displays a facet of the city's theatrical strength. A Lesson from Aloes seems a more overtly political play, more about the inequities of the government in Fugard's native South Africa, than in its 1980 Broadway production. Yet it sacrifices none of the personal agony in Joan Allen's portrayal of a woman literally maddened by the intrusions of the police state. As a black friend who may or may not have been betrayed by the woman's husband, Glover makes the suffering less classically tragic but more universal...
...contribute to a change in that fact. If the American people's support of Ronald Reagan is wrong-headed, then this would be leadership at its best--taking on a popular leader in time of peace and prosperity because Harvard knows better than the people. This is just another facet of the emerging political "consciousness" on campus--the more the differences between Harvard and more forthright political groups disappear, the less reason there is for Harvard not to exercise its academic leadership...
Politics, it becomes clear, is inevitably a facet of literature. The most benign, introspective meandering can always be read as an endorsement of self-centered capitalism and possessive individualism. Epstein is arguing for a particular view of life, the traditional liberal humanist ideology, when he says that gravity is essential to great literature, and gravity depends on the spiritual. Clearly, Marxism will not appeal to Epstein. Accepting the inevitability of politics in novels, even in masterpieces by Dostoyevsky or Conrad, he resists literature blind to the rich variety of life...
...THIS IS ALL we ever find out about the real Rosaleen. Interestingly enough the movie strives to philosophize on the nature of reality. At one point Rosaleen, who learns not only stories about lycanthropy, but the appropriate methods of recounting them, reveals this facet of the movie as the she begins yet another wolf tale, "Maybe...Maybe once upon a time...