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What makes a playwright hot? An Academy Award nomination helps. Kenneth Lonergan has been churning out plays for years ("This Is Our Youth," "The Waverly Gallery") to mounting acclaim, but it was his screenplay for the Oscar contender "You Can Count on Me" that really put him on the map. I wish I could share in the enthusiasm for Lonergan's work. But his latest play, "Lobby Hero" (at Playwrights Horizons in New York City), shows off all his strengths and weaknesses, with the latter narrowly winning out once again...
Jesus is pure Ifugao (people of the earth), a tribe that took its carving skills and wood tools and reshaped entire mountains into a living three-dimensional contour map. The rice terraces around Batad, and nearby Bangaan and Banaue, are one of those world wonders that demand a top eight rating. For centuries bamboo pipes and an intricate network of rivulets have taken water scores of miles to irrigate thousands of rice fields half-a-day's walk above the valley floor. The terrace walls are two to three meters high and end to end would stretch...
...Still, a bed can generally be found, often in Ifugao stilt huts. At 1,200-m altitude or higher, nights can be cool. But the sight of a dawn mist rolling over 1,000 m of terraced mountainside compensates for any discomfort. Walkers can mostly manage with only a map but guides are useful for longer treks. The best time to visit is April and May, when the hills turn electric green with rice shoots...
...liked his presentation. They thought it was balanced." It was one more sign of how profoundly the world has changed since the last time the Democrats sat listening to a President lay out his vision for the future, and one more sign that they need to find a new map...
Cartographers of the wrestling world, take note--the Harvard Crimson is now officially on the map...