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The current issue of Harper's Bazaar proclaims that we are entering a new era, the age of an "unintimidating, personalized kind of pretty." What this means is that for the first time in quite a while, models are opening their mouths, cracking a smile and looking in many instances...
Although the book is not available in most libraries, HarperCollins still sells 20,000 copies a year of the original. But the tale's reputation is such that the publishers of the new volumes were at first reluctant to resuscitate it. "There will be some people who think this is...
But there was meaning and majesty in the Gate's fortnight at Lincoln Center. The actors, their voices tinged with the guilt of Irish laughter, restored the author to his homeland. Beckett tortured actors--burying them in hillsides or trash cans, reducing them to mouths or silence--and loved them...
I don't know. But I do wonder where this leaves us, once the Republicans speed out of town with red, white and blue bunting trailing behind them like tin cans on the car of a newly-married couple. Perhaps back where we started, if a little poorer. Perhaps leaps...
At the lowest level, enforcing a moment of silence is good for discipline. Children should be taught how to close their mouths or stay in one place when told to do so. But such a disciplinary tool only works if it is taken seriously and unequivocally executed universally: complete silence...