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CANTON, N.Y.--If the seven-hour bus ride to Canton. New York wasn't long enough coming, it might seem a lot longer going home today...
...what he has described as a coda to his seven-hour Pulitzer-prizewinning epic Angels in America, playwright Tony Kushner has written a little one-act vaudeville called Slavs!, fuzzily subtitled Thinking About the Longstanding Problems of Virtue and Happiness. In 80 wordy minutes, Kushner scampers through seven years in the collapse of Russian communism (the second half of Angels, remember, was called Perestroika) and bounces from the Kremlin to a fantastic archive housing the bottled brains of dead party leaders to a Siberia-like heaven. His final line asks, as Lenin did, "What is to be done?" Audiences...
What is most impressive about The Great Depression, the new seven-hour documentary series from Eyes on the Prize creator Henry Hampton, is the predictable things it doesn't do. No obligatory, year-by-year chronicle of the economic disaster, replete with awful statistics; the few that are thrown in (the unemployment rate reached 25% in 1933) are awful enough. No windy political-science seminar on the strategies of Roosevelt's New Deal; the emphasis is not on Washington but on the fabric of life in the country, from breadlines and Hoovervilles to race riots and violent labor-management confrontations...
...orders his pizza by fax? Or Richie's new girlfriend Jessica, the blond M.B.A. with the six-figure salary and no cellulite? (So why wasn't Jessica found with a kitchen knife in her chest?) Was it Rosie's Waspy neighbor who makes brioche from scratch, using the seven-hour classic recipe (no freezing the dough)? Or Richie's sister Carol, "Our Lady of the Bikini Wax"? Rosie, the last-to-know wife, vows to get the answers first. A woman whose last task as a civilian was to grade papers on "The Gamut of Love in Pride and Prejudice...
...house on your back, turtle-fashion, the entire Western high country is yours for ski mountaineering. Perhaps because tent, stove, food, fuel and avalanche beeper weigh 65 to 70 lbs., you and your partner are likely to have the horizon to yourself, with (the thought occurs spontaneously after a seven-hour, 4,000-ft. climb) no other fools in sight...