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...made even more skeptical about Ethan's prospects when the ending is considered. In the novella, Ethan and Mattie attempt suicide by sledding very fast into a tree, how this works into the opera remains the show's biggest mystery. When asked about the suitability of the Ethan Frome for opera, Lee Poulis '02, who will make his Harvard debut in the title role, commented that "all opera is based on love." Despite a certain frigidity, Ethan Frome is a beautifully tragic love story...
...than a lackluster imitation of "The X-Files." Those same scenes are given their undeniable force not by the perfunctory work of the technicians but by the imaginative prowess of the man who, along with McKellan, is the only artist behind this project. The film is based on the novella of the same name by Stephen King, whose fiction, which can feel somewhat pulpy on the page, seems to come into its own via the overpoweringly visceral medium of the big screen...
...about 150 pages, the book is almost a novella and thus is supplemented with a lovely preface by Calvino himself, written in 1964. Calvino's later and better-known novels were neither warm nor autobiographical (with the exception of his final novel, the distanced and pensive Mr. Palomar), so it is somewhat surprising to find Calvino reflective and downright chatty. Nests was originally published in 1947 when Calvino was twenty-three; writing in 1964, Calvino was twenty-three; writing in 1964, Calvinoapparently felt the 17 years in between had earnedhim the seniority which marks his attitude in thepreface, even though...
...title novella in McInerney's new book, Model Behavior (Knopf; 275 pages; $24), does make some good jokes about our increasing desire to kowtow to celebrities. Having interviewed a slew of them for magazines, and having been interviewed almost as much himself since his first novel, Bright Lights, Big City, was published in 1984, McInerney knows how generic the whole experience is. The main character in Model Behavior just hits a button on his keypad to produce a paragraph about an actor living in Montana (CTRL, Mont) or a starlet claiming she still thinks of herself as ugly (SHIFT, What...
...MICE AND MEN George and Lennie sing when New York City Opera's rendition of John Steinbeck's novella opens...