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...quiet country refuge transforms into a station of some nightmarish and unknown plot. Harper??s futile attempts at explanation and soothing stiffen the audience’s resolve that something is terribly wrong, but plant the seeds of doubt that things aren’t necessarily that clear...
...table and the occasional hat material. Instead, our attention is focused through light, sound and incredibly creative costume. Garish blue and red and a combination of what sounds like church bells and clanging crowbars puts added stress on the gauntness and desperation of the prisoners’ parade, while Harper??s house contains an uneasy silence, set in shadow, so that we never quite know what will emerge...
...book reading at Barnes & Noble on the Upper West Side (81st and Broadway). The alliterative Harper??s editor Lewis Lapham plugs his new laundry list of liberal laments, Gag Rule...
...always picked last for the dodgeball team is the implicit protagonist of journalist Greg Critser’s Fat Land: How Americans Became the Fattest People in the World, a cultural history of fat America released in paperback this January (Mariner Books 2004). What first started as a Harper??s Magazine cover story on obesity evolved into an insightful 200-page glimpse into a land of Super Mario Brothers, 7-11 Big Gulps and the expanding extra-large sweat pants sported by an increasing mass of dodgeball-hating citizens of America, young and old alike...
...into society. Efforts to deny them franchise and educational benefits were undertaken in state legislatures. Some of their efforts were hardly subtle. Eminent cartoonist Thomas Nast drew a rather frank editorial cartoon, entitled “The American River Ganges,” published in May 8, 1875 in Harper??s Magazine. Cast in the distance of Nast’s drawing, St. Peter’s Basilica is a gilded structure across the river from which alligators (decked out in priestly collars) approach the shores of America. There, a crumbling public school, with an upside-down American...