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Generational hubris has always been especially robust in the children of the postwar baby boom; their sheer numbers gave many of them a swelling sense of their own inevitability, their unique moral Tightness. Everything they did was done in the incandescent certainty, the grand optical illusion, that it had never...
Older hands see other qualities. Says Character Dancer Shaun O'Brien, 50: "I like her innate grand manner. I think she will grow up to be one of the wonderful, impressive ballerinas-like the great old girls, only without being bulky." David Howard, a teacher who has worked with...
In keeping with its homey set, Good Morning tries to create the illusion that everybody who works on the show is part of a family. "It's our home," says Lunden. There is some truth to that, but the home has not always been happy. Former staffers tell stories...
They occupy an imaginary booth. Oliver begins plying Carrie with sweet talk, and intimacy becomes ardor. Swept away by their playacting, they end the scene clinging and kissing. What is doubly enchanting about this moment is that Jean Kerr has shown us in miniature precisely how the dramatic imagination works...
"To create the illusion of change" in the theater, the center spent $50,000 for color-coordinated seats, curtains, and capeting for restoring the marble and wood carving, Lodge said. Thick black paint on the large mahogany-trimmed windows in the lobby was removed, he said, adding that the mahogany...