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...same time, there is a certain uncertainty which surrounds all of Garcia Lorca's work: however lucid the image, the atmosphere remains more beautiful than the real, somehow symbolic, like a beautiful dream. We never know exactly why Yerma does not become pregnant. Moriarity's old woman would have it that Juan is infertile; the traditional wisdom of the village gossips suggests that Yerma is infertile because she somehow doesn't really want or deserve a child; Yerma herself rages against the "fate" whichs eems to have condemned her. Depending on which system of values the viewer uses to read...
...America, Part One: Millennium Approaches is, after all, one of the uncontested dramatic triumphs of the decade: a box-office smash, a genuine epic and the recipient of four Tony Awards and the Pulitzer Prize. One might say, then, that the transcendence of director Leah Altman's production is somehow inevitable, that it "comes with the territory...
...photographs in this series, and many of her series, Norfleet takes great care to carefully record, subject, name, date and location--as if she were doing an objective study of class relations. Yet somehow these photographs seem staged. Everyone is in place in this world captured by Norfleet; expressions, clothing and martini glasses are all just so. But is she revealing her subjects to us, or has she created her own class of sorts...
...this disempowered person was so easily frightened away from pursuing serious problems. While I did not like Hillary Clinton's ideas for health-care reform, she certainly had the right to articulate them. American women should be vitally interested in improving the health-care system. But public opinion has somehow achieved the wrong result; the health-care system remains poor, and the First Lady is required to be frivolous. Is that the American way? MARTA STEFAN London...
Others might name the virus as "ambition." I think it's more than that. It's the idea that life is a track; that every significant endeavor somehow has to be reduced to being a jumping-off point for the next, better endeavor; that things do not happen to us through luck or exceptional vision or untutored talent but rather through a series of well-calculated moves; that "successful" is something we will become in the future, not something we can be right now. And it's the idea that a career is something that already exists, that finding...