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This is a soap bubble of a play. It floats about weightlessly. Its translucent emptiness glints with rainbow colors consisting of quippy dialogue and glamorously exploitative star performances. Expiring at last it drops to earth in the form of a sentimental teary splat...
...possible to overrate the density of Friedrich's allegories. There is, for example, a German critic's claim that the rock against which the little traveler in Landscape with Rainbow (circa 1809) is leaning is really "the symbol of faith" and that his hat on the ground is "a sign of humility." But often the symbolism is plain enough, as in a well-known picture usually called The Wreck of the "Hope" (circa 1822). Friedrich was inspired, at first, by reports of early expeditions to the North Pole, all of which failed. But the image he produced, with...
...fate of weighty books in summer to be lugged to shores and mountains, to gather sand and silt and rings where vodka-and-tonic glasses treated them like coasters, and to go unopened. War and Peace, Gravity's Rainbow, Remembrance of Things Past, The Gulag Archipelago: they will all be home soon, reminders of Mark Twain's melancholy observation that a classic is "a book which people praise and don't read...
...future, Ryther also plans to raise abalone as well as brine shrimp, which could be used to nourish rainbow trout...
...country of Bhutan is probably the world's closest real-life equivalent to James Hilton's Shangri-La. The 1,100,000 Bhutanese, most of whom are illiterate peasants, sense that they live in a uniquely calm and contented country, which they call "the end of the rainbow land of desires." Last week Bhutan gave itself another distinction by publicly crowning the world's youngest monarch, 18-year-old King Jigme Singye Wangchuk. He will henceforth be known as "the dragon king...