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...music which intervenes between scenes. A relatively short play, The Tutor succeeds at all in this regard, the credit belongs mainly to the blaring, percussive music which intervenes between scenes. A relatively short play, The Tutor is nevertheless slow-moving, dragging along at the pace of a heavily-sedated snail. Part of the fault may lie with director Jurgen Flimm, a professional from the Thalia Theater in Hamburg, Germany, but it's doubtful whether even the crispest direction could depetrify dialogue and characters as wooden as these...
...picture of the Great Pink Snail where a couple is peering through a wicker-basket fence at some person, or thing, or phenomenon you will never know...
...madness of this world, the sheer absurdity. So you might as well sit back and enjoy the symmetry of the boy and his mother on one side and the bush and its shadow on the other; or become disquieted by the rough curve of the Great Pink Snail's pond and the parallel curve of the fence. Or cry when you see the lovers in front of the Rabbit house, if while sharing in their intimacy, you have none of your...
Whooshing from airport to similar airport, jet travelers usually find the world a pretty homogeneous place. Theroux destroys this illusion. His often snail-like pace (one local in southern India makes 94 stops) gives him the not always pleasant chance to sniff out local differences. "The first condition of understanding a foreign country," T.S. Eliot once wrote, "is to smell it," and Theroux misses nothing, from the burned coal that permeates Indian train stations to the poisonous industrial fumes of Osaka...
...goals are close enough to being quotas to alarm academics, and far enough removed to be unable to guarantee substantive results. At institutions like Harvard, where the turnover in high-ranking teaching jobs is tiny and the applicant pool of black Ph.D.s small, affirmative action moves at a snail's pace. There are more than 700 full professors in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, and Harvard's affirmative action program projects and increase between 1973 and 1976 from nine to 15 tenured minorities and from 18 to 37 tenured women. The departmental goals are modest, seldom exceeded, sometimes...