Word: griefs
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...ignore the violence and political strife of his native country?he just keeps it in the background with controlled plots and measured prose. The title story takes place immediately after the 2001 massacre of the royal family by Crown Prince Dipendra. While the country is thrown into confusion and grief, cab driver Ganga is confronted with a more personal upheaval?learning that his brother is gay. In Supreme Pronouncements, another story, when the student organizer Suresh is thrown in jail for writing a provocative editorial about a government contract, his biggest concern is not his cause or his safety...
...left out Julia Roberts, making her Broadway debut in Three Days of Rain, but the poor girl has had enough grief from the critics - not to mention a Tony snub. She's too stiff, and her Southern accent isn't even very good, but the real shame is how tinny Richard Greenberg's once-intriguing play now seems...
...credit that he cannot quite bring himself to write a book as dull and flat as Everyman's concept seems to demand. His style repeatedly breaks its leash, as at the funeral, when the protagonist's brother gives a moving eulogy and his estranged son struggles violently against unbidden grief. But then the narrator interjects that there had been 500 funerals in New Jersey that day and that except for the aforementioned moments, this one was "no more or less interesting than any of the others." It's an astonishing passage: an author arguing, against the evidence...
...PROTECTION, they had roared in earlier by the dozens on Harleys, Hondas and more Harleys, from as near as Palm Springs, Calif., and as far as Phoenix, Ariz., to take their places as honored guests of the bereaved--and as part of an eccentric but eloquent expression of national grief over sons and daughters who gave their lives...
...arms and becomes his obsession: Orpheus becomes haunted, refusing to play and brooding over a small shrine of Eurydice’s possessions. Unlike the myth, the play refuses to let Eurydice be defined by Orpheus’ dreams and imaginings: it portrays not only Orpheus in his grief, but also Eurydice in Hades. She has also been given the traditionally Orphic characteristic of compulsive creativity and is now a poet. The changes to Eurydice are the strongest aspect of the updated story. In addition to giving the myth a much-needed feminist boost, the two stories of Orpheus...