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PARIS--Jamie G. Aleval, 26, is one of the more colorful patrons at the McDonald's Cafe on the Champs Elysees. Chanting national songs with fellow Chilean fans, he sports a tall red hat emblazoned with the logo of the Chilean flag and a shirt to match. When tourists approach him, he good naturedly poses for pictures...
Indeed, the atmosphere in Paris is remarkablyfriendly among fans of competing nations. BeforeScotland and Brazil's match, for example, Scotsplaying bagpipes posed for pictures withyellow-shirted, flag waving Brazil fans...
...triumph and thereby killed U.S. hopes in the World Cup, Iranians flooded into the streets and whooped and hooted until dawn. No "Death to America" this time. In fact, a few Cup-crazed fans raced their cars up and down Valiasr Street, Tehran's main drag, with the American flag fluttering out the window. One reveler even cried out, within earshot of the bearded morality police who kept a disapproving watch on the fun, "We love America...
High Art doesn't have the humor or the steely self-assurance of Bound, a razor-sharp thriller/campfest that acknowledged the clichéd phoniness of shorthanding a woman's skill with bathroom pipes as an instant flag of lesbian sexuality. High Art, by contrast, scores aces for slinky atmosphere but overdoes the seriousness, offering a somber, compellingly seedy, but occasionally lethargic story where the sexual roundabouts that "shock" its various characters are rarely if ever shocking to us. By the time Lucy's saddled with a cartoonish Jewish mother, Cholodenko seems as starved for inspiration as Great and Lucy...
...masterly job of taming this unruly work. The audience sits, theater-in-the-round style, on opposing sides of a long stage. At one end is a two-level block of cells; at the other, the warden's office, where every prop--desk, telephone, picture frames, even the American flag--is a grim steel gray. He doesn't soften the melodramatic excesses, yet he emphasizes the metaphorical overtones. There are references to Mussolini and Hitler ("that monkey with the trick mustache"); a Jewish convict laments, "I come of a people that are used to suffer"; and the harrowing scenes...