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...Gaza appeared to be escalating this week, with every new outrage fueling the fires of revenge and reaffirming - in their own minds, at least - each side?s claim to the righteousness of letting their weapons do the negotiating. Peace, right now, is a fantasy of yesteryear, and each new lifeless child committed to the contested ground of the West Bank and Gaza pushes it a little further beyond reach...
This is not to say that the production is terrible. It isn’t. But it does drag, and a show which should be vibrant comes across as lifeless. The talent of the cast is overwhelming, the production values are first-rate and the musical elements are finely tuned. Yet somehow the total effect of the production is far less than the sum of its parts...
...Dion is a tempestuous and embittered failure as an artist, husband and father. His sparks of energy and enthusiasm throw the brokenness of Dion’s life into a sharp relief that makes his degeneration from love-struck youth to disillusioned middle-age beautifully tragic. Meanwhile, in a lifeless-yet-mathematically-correct architecture firm, Billy’s successful career takes off even as his life remains trapped in emotional stasis. McClelland’s nervous energy more than fills Billy’s cavernous office-space, spilling over and infecting the audience with amusement and empathy. When Margaret...
...shocked that the destruction of statues by the Taliban aroused more of an outcry than the lack of aid being sent to Afghanistan by the West. Has the world become so inhumane that it cares more about lifeless statues than dying, innocent children? SALMAN MURTAZA Karachi...
...year-old son Vinod. He had left their home in Bhuj a few minutes before the quake struck, but there has been no sign of him since. Is he in another camp? Did he flee to his sister's home in Surat, to the south? Is his body lying lifeless under some mound of bricks and stone?or was it dumped, unrecognized, on a funeral pyre, like thousands of others? The couple, small and frail in their mid-fifties, are trapped somewhere between hope and despair. Every morning, Karsanbhai heads out in search of Vinod, circulating among the NGO camps...