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...common fate of playwrights to flower early, then fade from fashion long before they die and spend decades enduring agonizing public reappraisal of their early triumphs. That has been Miller's lot in the U.S., where commercial producers mostly write him off as a shopworn social reformer. In Britain Mt. Morgan is his 13th play to be seen in the West End in the past dozen years. Moreover, British critics and audiences accept him as the poetic expressionist he sees in himself, rather than the earnest realist that U.S. productions relentlessly turn him into. "In London," he says, "audiences...
...checkbook and, as a Mother's Day gift, writes her an opera. Dede brags, like a tough schoolkid, about how she aced out some fastidious jerk in her basement laundry. For her, chain letters are literature. The boy, a nonstop reader, also dotes on Van Gogh's flower studies. Sometimes, Fred says, "I wake up in his paintings...
Under a torrential downpour, Dandeny Munoz Mosquera spoke into a pay phone outside a Queens flower shop. A team of agents from the Drug Enforcement Administration watched him from a parked car across the street. Before he knew what was happening, Munoz Mosquera suddenly had a dozen guns pointed at his head. "We have captured the single most trusted hit man of the Medellin cartel," announced New York DEA chief Robert Bryden. Munoz Mosquera is believed to have killed 40 Colombian officers, government officials, witnesses and innocent bystanders, and may have masterminded the 1989 murder of presidential candidate Luis Carlos...
...FAMILY had problems with their neighbors, it would let its dog walk all over the flower garden or blast music at 3 a.m. And if parents really wanted their children to be chosen for a team or get elected to an office, they would bake dozens of cookies to bribe the other students...
...syllables, concentrated. One person saying one thing is very interesting. The highest form of civilization is that which can be expressed by dance, which combines bodily movement and rythm with words and music. This combines the body, speech and mind in one activity, synchronizes them. That is the highest flower of civilization. In that sense science is not the highest, the highest flower of civilization. Which is why African nations have influenced the whole world through blues, rock and roll, rhythm, movement of the body, going beyond restrictions and chains and mechanical blood, rationalistic repression. Hyper-rationalistic. There is nothing...