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...female student art lined the walls—much like it might in Heidi’s apartment. More striking was Alter’s staging. Each scene was posed and set—the characters moved very little—so that they resembled tableaus rather than moving life. Their picture-like qualities both hearkened back to Heidi’s profession and highlighted the stationary condition of her memories. Such small touches were notable, considering “Chronicles” marks Alter’s directorial premiere. Such strong choices ultimately make the play relevant...
...modernity unwinding in general culture to the point of constant self-awareness. The Beat-Hipsters were certainly self-obsessed, but they bore an earnestness and sincerity that is impossible if one’s mental energy is overly devoted to fretting over anticipated acceptance of an ironic costume bobble. Life and public existence as a creative endeavor rather than the eventual outplay of internal development involves active consideration of one’s perception (we all do this), and the contribution of today’s Hipster is this to a new degree, an advanced, unrelenting stage...
...Roll The Dice,” according to Khuri, is about the naiveté with which middle- and upper-class people often approach working with the poor. The song narrates from the perspective of one such well-intentioned character, the lyrics revealing his cursory assumptions about a life of which he actually knows little: “I always carry quarters for upside-down hats / ...Cuz I know it ain’t so pretty man, it ain’t so safe and so clean / And I do believe I’ve seen ‘em bleed...
...Adams in Winter: a Journey in the Last Days of Napoleon,” against the background of Adams’ troubled marriage and peripatetic life as a diplomatic wife, British historian Michael O’Brien marshals an impressive array of sources in order to recreate Mrs. Adams’ journey across Europe. The result is an agreeable mix of biography, travelogue, and historical narrative—a book whose form is as hybrid as its subject. O’Brien describes Louisa Catherine Adams as “migrant, transnational, bicultural, bilingual,” and proposes...
...half-burned houses. Later, she passes the harrowed battlefield of Leipzig—scene of the biggest battle in Europe before World War I—where human skeletons are still strewn on the charred ground among scraps of leather and smashed muskets. And into this chronological narrative of life on the road, O’Brien skillfully weaves a series of telling anecdotes from Louisa Catherine Adams’s experience as a wife, mother, and American expatriate in Europe...