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...acclaim for his recent off-Broadway revival of Our Town - handles all this with sensitivity and solemnity. (This is a real rara avis in New York theater: a play without laughs.) A cast of mostly Americans (among them Mary Beth Hurt and Victoria Clark) conveys the British and Australian milieus with as much authenticity as you're likely to find on these shores. The play is unrelievedly bleak but with a denouement of unexpected hope: a moving, almost revelatory evening of theater, and easily the best new play of the year...
...such stars as Laurence Dallaglio, Paul Sackey and Jason Robinson (sons, respectively, of Italian, Jamaican and Ghanaian immigrants). Expect that diversity to grow: As television helps fuel rugby's popularity from the ground up, a rising number of the nation's best players will emerge from more modest milieus than Eton, Harrow and the school that gave the game its name, as kids from all social background embrace a game that "looks like...
Maybe before this incident, Summers thought “innate differences” proved that he, a man, simply couldn’t demonstrate that kind of empathy or understanding. But he’s learned his lesson. The experiences of women, his friends and colleagues, many from cultural milieus or on career trajectories similar to his own, have turned him from brash to contrite...
...Platinum (UPN, Tuesdays, 9 p.m. E.T.; previews Monday, April 14, 9 p.m. E.T.) accomplishes nothing else, it shows that the hip-hop record business has all these milieus beat: people shoot, get shot, squabble over contracts and end up in the hospital! Straight-arrow Jackson Rhames (Jason George) and his streetwise brother Grady (Sticky Fingaz) have a dream job--running the independent record label Sweetback--but they also have a few problems. Their top act, an Eminem-like white rapper, is a thug, and his last record tanked. If they poach a rival label's star, it could start...
...restrictive era for Jews. Certain jobs, housing and social milieus were off limits to them. "They were discouraged from entering professions like architecture, banking, and through restrictive quotas, even medicine," writes Kaplan. For Bernays, anti-Semitism began at home; her father tried to deny his Jewishness altogether. "My father would have rather lived on the Bowery alongside the bums than among Jews and assorted Old Worlders on the Upper West Side," she writes. "I knew nothing about Jewish holidays; they were as invisible as our many cousins in Austria and Germany who did not survive...