Word: queens
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...READER WHO HAS NOT followed the doings of Louise Erdrich's bewitched North Dakota Chippewas since her first novel, Love Medicine (missing The Beet Queen and Tracks for no good reason), finds in the fourth telling of the story that not much has changed. That's good; most of the same powerful characters are still around causing trouble, some as hovering spirits, some as living beings. A few years have passed, and in The Bingo Palace (HarperCollins; 274 pages; $23) we are close to present time, but reservation life is still a shabby, cross-cultural muddle. And Erdrich, herself part...
...book's high point is a set-piece chapter toward the end in which Kreer's enemies close in and he loses his grip. Mostly it is snippets from self- righteous letters from parishioners (with copies to the Archbishop of Canterbury and the Queen) and deadly announcements of custody warfare and collapsed credit. For savagery, it's worth the novel...
...King good for? Perhaps no question better illustrates the political gap separating Britain from America. The British royal family is simultaneously venerated and dragged through the mud, looked up to for stability and moral authority, and disparaged as powerless and irrelevant. Imagine if Bill Clinton had to answer to Queen Elizabeth as well as Bob Dole...
...trailer is not "just passing through." It breaks down in Endora, and from it emerges Becky (Juliette Lewis). Although boyish and elf-like with her close-cropped hair, Becky resembles the Momma we see in former "beauty queen" pictures. She captivates Gilbert and subdues Arnie with her deep, slow way of speaking, her simplicity and her ethereal charm. Becky's influence is so profound that she brings Gilbert to life; by the end of the film, Momma remarks to her son, "you shimmer and you glow...
...older alumni expressed as they went through "The Jewish Experience at Harvard and Radcliffe" saying "Harvard finally recognized its past errors." We witnessed Sheikh Ahmed Zaki Yamani walking through that exhibition, just as a group of Jewish alumni were viewing "Harvard's Arabian Nights." We were present when Queen Noor of Jordan opened the exhibition "Monumental Islamic Calligraphy," brought to the museum at the request of then-NELC Professor Annemarie Schimmel, and met with Mrs. Joy Ungerleider-Mayerson who later established the Dorot Professorship which Stager now holds. We were honored be trained for "The City of David: Discoveries From...