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...career as though it were the family business. Friends about to review his first novel, Buddenbrooks, a story of materialistic decline and youthful awareness, received detailed instructions from the author, who was 26. Comparisons to Dickens and the "great Russians" were recommended. About himself, the noted ironist was seldom ironical...
...also seldom wrong; within two decades he was to be on the shelves with Dostoyevsky and Tolstoy. Even so, he knew at the start that his sense of invention could not equal his powers of observation. As Winston notes, "A symbolic fiction must be provided with the most realistic of foundations. This was an article of faith with Mann from the outset of his career." And where was he to find those foundations? In the lives of his colleagues and contemporaries, no matter how vulnerable they were; art was everything. Aschenbach, the enfeebled aesthete of Death in Venice...
...GILGIT, a small town at an altitude of 4000 feet or so in a remote, seldom visited part of northern Pakistan, a tribe of Kirghiz mountaineers ekes out a precarious existence. It is a strange land to them, and they are among strange people. This tribe of about 280 families--over 1000 people--left their homes in the towering Pamir mountains, to the north in Afghanistan's Wakhan corridor, after Soviet troops invaded in December, 1979. Fighting hit-and-run battles against the better-equipped Russians, they soon had to sell their livestock and slip over the border into Pakistan...
Gaddafi remains generally popular in Libya, but he has become increasingly isolated; he once wandered freely among the people but now usually stays out of sight (and rifle shot). He seldom sleeps in the same house two nights in a row, and his movements are random. When he does appear in public, he often poses and struts for the cameras in an impeccably tailored military uniform, true to his own statement of what his regime is all about: "The strong always rule...
...most part, the play moves quickly, the three players working in tight ensemble. The timing is crisp, not only in the dramatic moments but in the sharply sarcastic bits of humor laced throughout. Even more importantly in a production with such a small cast, the dramatic tension seldom flags, the monologues seldom ramble. There's a risk in doing a play with only three actors, but there can be a certain magic as well. Luckily, Moore has sensed that the magic of Slow Dance lies in the passions of his characters and has given them correspondingly free rein...