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...businessmen of Broadway know one way to create a hit: hire a big Hollywood star and hope the name on the marquee will pull in the crowds. The romanticists of Broadway prefer another, more storied method: take a kid from the chorus, stick him or her into the lead role and watch as a new star is born. Sometimes this Broadway fable even comes true. Oddly, it did so twice last week...
...Peola will pay for it. After Delilah dies, of a broken heart, Peola appears at the funeral and, in one of the cinema's primal weepie tropes, throws herself at the casket. Perhaps we are meant to find Peola guilty of matricide. But in Washington's mien and method, we can't help sympathizing with her impulse. Her mother was the stay-back past of black polity; she is the get-going future...
...preferred cooking method would probably have been boiling: this Maori village, home to about 70, sits among geothermally heated pools and is periodically sprayed by two spectacular geysers. These days, locals sell freshly boiled sweet corn, plucked from the simmering pools and naturally seasoned by sulfur dioxide...
...Maori of Whakarewarewa have perfected another cooking method as well: hangi, or steam-cooked, meals. Low stone boxes are built over steam vents and used as ovens. Ned's Cafe, the village restaurant, specializes in hangi, serving up the kind of hearty WWII-vintage meals that gave British food its bad name. But even the luncheon meat and chicken with stuffing comes out moist and pleasant, and made very palatable by the tang of the salts. Dessert, inevitably, is steamed pudding...
Sonne said that the Lemon Test—a method for determining whether the government should give financial aid—has resulted in discrimination against faith-based schools...