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Such insights may be intended ironically; if so, Gordon gives no clues. For all the novel's virtues and craftsmanship, Men and Angels is remarkably humorless. Being a feminist, and having to reinvent the world, is evidently hard and serious work. And one of the occupational hazards, which Gordon skirts...
However, the real apex of the night was certainly his last scene to "Rocka My Soul in the Bostom of Abraham." The entire company creates a feverish excitement as the music builds on the picture of mesmerizing dancers. Yellow skirts fly and bodies sway to this extraordinarily contagious music. The...
As Svetlana remembered her papochka, Stalin was tender with her in her early childhood, bestowing "loud moist kisses" and calling her "little sparrow." But as she reached adolescence, he became incensed by her independent spirit. He berated her for the "insolence" on her face. He made a scene when he...
THE PURPOSE of this book, though, isn't to throw any intellectual weight around. (In fact, Hart sometimes writes so poorly--a modern building on the traditional Dartmouth campus "makes about as much sense as acne on Princess Grace"--one wonders if he has any intellectual weight.) Instead, the real...
Beckett once called Endgame, "Rather difficult and elliptic, mostly depending on the power of the text to claw, more inhuman than Godot." Akalaitis humanizes Beckett's inhuman text. While Beckett clearly implies that his play occurs after a nuclear holocaust. Akalaitis attempts to describe physically the status of man after...