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...cinematic speed of transition. The actors are adequate, save for irksome mugging by the chorus, and the singing is mostly fine, with opera diva Shirley Verrett gloriously belting the score's two standards, June Is Bustin' Out All Over and You'll Never Walk Alone. The dances by Sir Kenneth MacMillan, who died during rehearsals, are bold and lively, although they bring the storytelling to a halt. The race-blind casting, if historically inaccurate, does not jar because this is clearly a fable...
...mixture does not work, partly because the historical and the personal plot lines that Vollmann imagines to be parallel simply are not. One of the former is the death in 1846 of Sir John Franklin and all the members of his British navy Arctic expedition, sent to find the Northwest Passage. Vollmann relates that event to a glum romance in present time between one of the author's fictional alter egos, whom he calls Captain Subzero, and a young, deaf Inuit woman named Reepah. Vollmann insists at length that Subzero, an & Arctic tourist who, as Vollmann himself did, makes...
...passport, there is a strong streak of Eire: the tale-spinning, the mordant thoughtfulness, the smile in his soft voice that lightens his remarks with a puckish irony. His father Cecil was the Irish-born poet laureate of England. His mother is actress Jill Balcon, whose Baltic Jewish father, Sir Michael Balcon, ran Ealing Studios, Britain's renowned comedy factory. Daniel's sister Tamasin, four years older, is a documentary filmmaker and writer on food...
...prophetic Sir Yogi was-a miracle did happen, and it went something like this...
...Sarajevo marketplace three weeks ago, it shook the rest of the world as well. After 22 months of hand wringing and empty threats, NATO finally responded with an ultimatum. While the Serbs were finding it politic to negotiate a deal with the new U.N. ground commander, British Lieut. General Sir Michael Rose, the prospect of NATO action moved an anxious Russia -- caught between loyalty to fellow Orthodox Slavs and its interests in cooperating with the West -- to intervene. Air strikes would have forced Boris Yeltsin to risk the wrath of Russian nationalists or to condemn the attacks and alienate international...