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The wild success of the No. 3 TV show, Friends, is more understandable in light of last week's Census Bureau report, which shows that the average age at which people wed has climbed to a record level--26.7 for men and 24.5 for women. Never-married adults now make...
All these intrigues are played out in separate scenes, each featuring a different pair of characters. This device focuses the attention of the audience on the characters on stage, allowing every detail of Shanley's carefully constructed comic situations to come across. The cast luxuriates in the limelight, and makes...
Also remarkable are the senuous forms of Anders Zorn's ninteenth-century nudes and his well-rendered, impressionistic "Omnibus," with hatching strokes powerfully suggesting the jostled weight of human bodies. A tight, involved etching by contemporary artist David Schorr and a striking and politically charged work in an intense blue...
Brown evokes the sleek surrealism of Tokyo--where dogs are rented by the hour and people eat green-tea tiramisu cake--with economical aplomb. Even better, he offsets such Tomorrowland aspects with lyrical images of Toshi's rural home, where women eat grilled eel while watching Audrey Hepburn and go...
Could the novel be a reconstruction limned by a writer who saw the campaign documentary The War Room eight times and read every published word on the campaign? I doubt it. There are scenes that are just too nuance filled to be rendered in such perfect-pitch fashion by even...