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...behind the flickering blue lights of a thousand windows. We share the unsought intimacy of overpeopled apartments where "another person's wall darkens and swells with autumn anguish." Those who suffer must not only endure their plight; they must also surrender the peculiarly human right to be themselves: to lust, to scheme, to betray, to generally behave badly. Tolstaya is there to remind us that not even history at its most reckless can rob individuals of the right to their own stories...
...Depression, in which a middle-class family is expected to pony up $100,000 or so in lieu of letting a young couple elope. At heart, though, the story is about the deep, complex, poignant love a man has for his daughter: it's the Lolita syndrome without the lust but with every bit of the doting possessiveness. Annie's budding maturity means that George can no longer even pretend he is young; her engagement is a renunciation of their old flirtatious bond. "I was no longer the man in my little girl's life," he says with a sigh...
...presence of sexually available women on the sidelines of sport is nothing new. After all, Babe Ruth's appetite for women was as insatiable as his lust for food and booze. In his newly published memoir, A View from Above, Hall of Fame center Wilt Chamberlain boasts of having slept with 20,000 women -- an average of 1.4 a day for 40 years...
Harvard can harness this prestige-lust with life-sized cardboard cut-outs of its cultural icons. The endless parade of Yardgoers will gladly shell out 10 bucks for pictures of themselves kissing Rudenstine, draping their arms around John Kenneth Galbraith, rubbing Marty Feldstein's bald pate, giving Alan Dershowitz the finger...
...heart of this dance is Lysistrata, by far the most challenging role in the play. Carter convinces the audience that her character has deeper motives than lust. She displays a commanding presence, especially when leading the women in an oath of chastity; "I will withhold all rights of access or entrance..." Occasionally, though, the glitz and energy of the production over-shadow her character. Playing the straight woman among vivid caricatures and dancers is a daunting task...