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...play's inner life is the growing bond between the captive, Keely, and her grandmotherly keeper, Du. Part of the closeness is their natural sympathy as women beleaguered by men. Part is a shared, stereotypically feminine impulse to focus on an individual situation more than an abstract principle. Part, too, is the "Stockholm syndrome" of intimacy between hostage and hostage taker as a way of enduring forced togetherness. The effect is especially strong in this situation because, unlike most hostages, the young woman has no fear of being murdered -- her captors are desperate to keep her alive, if only...
...experts term `anhedonia' (utter lack of pleasure on a prolonged basis). This can greatly burden work and social life. It feels like a case of `mononucleosis' that never ends (I have twice had `mono' and the similarities are striking). Hardly anyone else has ever been aware of my inner mental states, and even renowned professionals have not been able to detect my present condition without my own reports of symptoms. In one sense this indicates that I am fortunate that my illness is less debilitating than many people suffer, but also that it is possible to suffer badly without anyone...
Chapel Street. If you're already on Chapel Street for dessert, don't miss the many specialty shops which cater to the University's students and faculty. With Macy's gone and the Chapel Square Mall over-run by "inner city youth," most of the retail action has moved closer to the University. The Gap and Laura Ashley are just two of the retail outlets flourishing thanks to Yale. The Atticus Book Store, at 1082 Chapel Street (next door to Yale's British Art Museum) caters to bibliophiles of every sort. Grab a cappuchino in the recently added and immensely...
Fogg Art Museum. Through Jan. 6: "The Art of Time: Clocks, Watches, and other Timepieces from Harvard Collections." Includes many historically significant pieces seldom seen in public. The inner works of each timepiece will be displayed outside the case to help viewers appreciate the clockmakers' art. Through Jan. 9. "An Offbeat Collection of Dutch and Flemish Paintings." Featuring 20 works from the 16th and 17th century Netherlands, all drawn from a private collection...
These, I suppose, are the assurances of anyone lucky enough to have a space left over from childhood. It is something to have your inner life take space, to have adolescence leave its varied marks on your walls. To enter the room is to enter the only place I've built myself, a room under my father's skylight and an old farmer's wooden post...