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When Beth Ann begins to worry about the car dealer she didn't pick, the unfunded college student and the child still awaiting the transplant, the hosts gloss over her anxiety. As they croon to her that they "feel so warm and wonderful...in one big happy family," they mock the illusion of the American dream...
GRANDCHILD OF KINGS. Hal Prince proved himself a genius of high-gloss staging in such musical extravaganzas as Cabaret and The Phantom of the Opera. Now his awesome talents, and a cast of 27, are employed in an exuberant, emotionally rich yet intimate off-Broadway retelling of Sean O'Casey's Dublin memoirs...
...appearance and popularity of these stores are signs of our growing environmental consciousness, but also of the extent to which environmentalism has become a fad. Slap the label "organic" on anything, from lip gloss to supermarket baggies, and you can double the price and still increase sales...
Despite the committed, serious tone of the pamphlets, the real motto of the Body Shop should be "food, folks and fun." Everything possible has been flavored and colored, from the soaps to the "Ice Cream Flavored Lip Gloss," which was tasty, but not particularly practical. Sure, Rocky Road and Kiwi Fruit taste yummy, but who wants green or beige lips? Another casualty of the Body Shop's compulsive color-coordination...
...tribute to Jane Smiley's absorbing, well-plotted novel that it never reads like a gloss on Shakespeare. For one thing, A Thousand Acres has an exact and exhilarating sense of place, a sheer Americanness that gives it its own soul and roots. More important, Ginny and Rose are not villains. Smiley has had Lear at the back of her mind since she first read the play. "I never bought the conventional interpretation that Goneril and Regan were completely evil," she says. "Unconsciously at first, I had reservations: this is not the whole story...