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Director Justin Levitt seems to have just let the other characters fend for themselves. Whereas some do flesh out their roles (most notably Jessica Yager's wonderfully coy Doctor and Richard Gardner's hilarious bumbling Justice), others simply read their lines and exit. The set, also by Levitt, never quite takes on the majesty of the British courts but rather looks like a small claims court. Costumes are period enough, though the attorney's wigs sometimes make them look like Marilyn Monroe impersonators. These factors detract from the play's tenuous attempts to be intense and powerful drama...
...hard to understand why he's there. It's hard to understand why any of the movie is here, because so little of it is new or innovative. If the real ballet is inaccessible, this Nutcracker is an acceptable substitute, but if you can see it in the flesh, don't bother with a cramped cinema...
Intolerance need not be that blatant to inflict wounds. If Tony Jeffreys, 34, and Alice Sakuda Flores, 28, have a child, that hypothetical Japanese- Filipino-German-Irish-Buddhist-Catholic-American will become flesh and blood. In their one year of marriage, Tony says, "I've heard friends say stupid stuff about Asians right in front of Alice. It is real hypocritical because a lot of them have Mexican or black girlfriends or wives." Sometimes the more subtle the rejection, the sharper the sting. Says Candy Mills, 29, the daughter of black and Native American parents, who is married to Gabe...
That kind of faux pas was unacknowledged in the days of Ozzie and Harriet and flesh-colored Band-Aids, when one advertising message fit all customers. But like the homogenized, '50s-style households for which they were created, the tools of mass marketing are headed for the Trashmaster of history. Waves of immigrants from Asia, Latin America and Africa, added to an already growing minority population, are radically reshaping the face and buying habits of the "typical" American consumer...
...Adrianople, Edirne in modern Turkey, has been the most fought-over place in the world (it stands at the land bridge between Europe and Asia). If Keegan spends too little time on war in the 20th century, his unusual design -- a layering of material in chapters called "Stone," "Flesh," "Armies," "Iron" and so on -- permits him to range across time and distance to brilliant comparative effect. He roams from the Japanese suppression of firearms during the Tokugawa seclusion (an early success of gun $ control, unrepeatable and totalitarian) to the Aztec "Feast of the Flaying of Men"; from...