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...summer I was in a show that was a mix of different works by the choreographer who directs the Ballet Theater of Boston, Jose Matte. All the professional dancing I have done has been at the Ballet Theater of Boston, except this summer [when] I worked on something called Jacob's Pillow and I danced in the Ballet DeVille under Peter Anastos, which was a good experience for me. That's really the only professional dancing that I've done...
...Jacob Aaron Broder, as Hamlet, had a rather rough start. His abrupt tone and volume shifts, which were supposed to parallel his mood swings, were instead too rough and affected. As the play progressed, he gained his rhythm and confidence to the point where, when he uttered the line "I want to be a woman," he was believed...
...senior official at a national law enforcement training program, Jacob Haber, says universities should require a minimum of 24 hours of training on cultural diversity--eight times what Harvard currently offers...
Brown, the respected author of Civil Wars and Tender Mercies, is a skilled and subtle observer. She pays careful, measured attention to the reactions of Carolyn, Jacob's mother, a pediatrician who believes that truth is too important for compromise; Ben, a talented sculptor who lies combatively for his son; and Judith, a bright, somewhat withdrawn girl who even before the crime was troubled by her brother's unruly sexuality. But too much care, too much measuring, give the novel a somewhat mechanical quality that prevents it from being first rate. Parents and sister are complex and believable, but seem...
...Jacob, unlike his parents and sister, rarely appears as more than a sketched figure. He seems not to have a life, but merely a function: to set off the family torment, so the author can take notes. Carolyn dutifully worries now and then about how the parents of the dead girl are feeling, but mostly the troubled family's misery is airless. The legal and psychological entanglement seems oddly phantasmagorical, lacking independent reality. As an expression of parental dread, of being trapped and unable to help one's children in a situation of vaguely defined horror, the fears are vivid...