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...considered booking two places in a local retirement home, events came along to remind me of my own mortality. First, my previously annoying little sister now sported a set of contact lenses, a bustline, a pair of car keys and a linebacker-boyfriend whose neck was larger than my thigh. One night while I sat watching David Letterman, my sister and her beau-immense stumbled into the house after a night...
...Borgesian game of hunting a lost text may remind readers of Umberto Eco's The Name of the Rose, where monks searched for the second part of Aristotle's Poetics, and it would not be a bad comparison. Like Eco, Pavic loves to play games with the textuality of the text--the Dictionary is more toy than book--and, like Eco, Pavic has profound doubts about the power of language to communicate...
...meantime, Democrats can console themselves by imagining Bill Bradley or Mario Cuomo as FDR to Bush's Hoover. Michael Dukakis can remind himself that it's better to be right than President...
Whatever happens on stage, it is always clear that this is theater--there's no pretention that the events are real. Most of the performers seem more to be going through a bizarre ritual called theater than actually imitating real people. Lengthy scene changes remind the audience that they are watching a spectacle, and a pretty uninspiring...
Student backers of both candidates will staff regional headquarters on Election Day and call voters to remind them to visit the polls, student campaign officials said...