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Caldwell scissors across the stage in lean and elegant black. Although she does not sing a note, she does a brilliant job of suggesting--with the turn of a hand, the tilt of her head--the minor adjustments of someone attending to an inner genius; you don't doubt that if she could only transfer what's inside her to her pupils, they would sing like angels. And when Callas' voice is piped in--a true angel, soaring out of the loudspeakers--Caldwell, her conduit, suddenly embodies the paradox at the heart of every magnificent diva: someone who might...
...interactions between the men and women, both believable and funny, show all the complexities of romantic relationships. A typical morning-after scene between Bobby and April has him begging her to stay with him. But when she finally agrees, we hear Robert's sleep-deprived and committment-phobic inner voice groaning...
...Phyllis and Bishop are extremely difficult, spanning the full range of emotion from slapstick to criminal insanity, and they are mostly handled well by Sarah Burt-Kinderman and Ryan McCarthy. Though McCarthy is unconvincing as the young Bishop--his stuttering remains an irritating mannerism rather than evidence of his inner conflcits--he plays the older, savage Bishop with the necessary energy and conviction. His long, shouted monologue about masturbation would sink the play if presented without utter confidence; fortunately, McCarthy is equal to the task. While it is troubling that McCarthy remains in that one loud register for the whole...
...nihilism or "listening to gangster rap" is the major factor promoting African-American under-development in the face of evidence that demonstrates that a culture just as, if not more perverse, continually produces economic winners. In short, to blame African-American nihilism for under-developed material conditions in the "inner-cities" fails to recognize the relative material success of those who created mainstream nihilistic culture...
...Newman goes on: "On average, fast-food restaurants in the area have 14 job applicants for every minimum-wage opening.... Most blacks seeking work at Harlem fast-food chains have applied for four or five other jobs." Newman's study suggests to me that "poor blacks" in the "inner-cities" are looking more intensely for jobs than for "a helping hand" from Uncle...