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...little-seen world of turn-of-the-century Old Money New York Jews who live in town houses. His 2003 book, Fagin the Jew, took Dickens' famous Oliver Twist character and invented a fuller biography for the character, with the intention of dispelling one of literature's most potent defamatory stereotypes. When I interviewed Eisner about Fagin he described the book as a "polemic." In his acknowledgments to The Plot he uses the word again, but this time it is even more applicable. Carefully researched, with introduction by Umberto Eco, reference notes and an afterward by a professor of political...
...present-day Central Highlands town of Dalat. Not that there are any complaints from the clientele, who comprise a fair slice of Dalat's artists and intellectuals (the town is Vietnam's pre-eminent bohemian enclave). From early morning, they gather to read the papers and suck down potent glasses of ca phe sua da - espresso served over ice and sweetened with condensed milk - while listening to music coming out of antiquated speakers (it might be by the Ronettes, the Rolling Stones or Khan Ly, Vietnam's most celebrated diva and a Café Tung regular in the 1960s...
...present-day Central Highlands town of Dalat. Not that there are any complaints from the clientele, who comprise a fair slice of Dalat's artists and intellectuals (the town is Vietnam's pre-eminent bohemian enclave). From early morning, they gather to read the papers and suck down potent glasses of ca phe sua da-espresso served over ice and sweetened with condensed milk-while listening to music coming out of antiquated speakers (it might be by the Ronettes, the Rolling Stones or Khan Ly, Vietnam's most celebrated diva and a Café Tung regular in the 1960s...
...Santa Fe Opera last week, two important premieres demonstrated just how potent eclecticism can be. John Eaton's The Tempest, with a libretto after Shakespeare by Music Critic Andrew Porter of The New Yorker, is a rich blend of Renaissance music, jazz and electronics that is surrounded by an uncompromisingly modernist microtonal framework. Another happily eclectic work, Hans Werner Henze's The English Cat, takes an anthropomorphic tale by English Playwright Edward Bond, based on Balzac, and sets it to music that freely ranges from kitschy consonance to acerbic dissonance. Both operas have the kind of unquestioned stylistic integrity that...
...Tokyo, predicted that Nakasone's modest plan would have little impact. He expects the Japanese growth rate to slip from 4.5% this year to 4% or even 3.5% in 1986, primarily because the country's exports will increase at a slower pace. The government is reluctant to adopt more potent stimulative measures, like large tax cuts, because it wants to keep the Japanese inflation rate, only about 2.5% this year, firmly under control...