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...Slavs!’ is not merely an idea play; it is a play that struggles with fundamental elements of being human.” Whether it’s this essential humanity, Kushner’s intriguing script, or the HRDC’s splendid acting and staging that draws audiences to “Slavs!,” the play is well worth a viewing—and an exclamation point...
...Davids Killory: Daybreak Grove The proportion of America's homeless population consisting of families with children increased 30% during 1993, according to a report issued last week. Which makes Daybreak Grove, a tiny but splendid attempt in the San Diego exurb of Escondido to give a few impoverished families homes, all the more heartening. The project shows that low-income housing need not be dreary or demeaning: this is a lively and dignified piece of tightly woven architecture. Architects Christine Killory and her partner, Chilean-born Rene Davids, have used as their central idea a traditional Latin American form: each...
...walls to discover the theater's original four-story Neo-Gothic apses on either side of the stage and, throughout the theater, a vast amount of decorative plasterwork, 40% of which ! needed replacing. In addition, a modern TV infrastructure had to be implanted without seriously disturbing any of the splendid 1927 shell. For all that, the total cost was still probably less than Letterman earns in a year...
...Name of the Father Daniel Day-Lewis is brilliant as Gerry Conlon, the Belfast lad falsely accused of I.R.A. terrorism and imprisoned with his long-suffering da. Jim Sheridan's movie is informed by an angry passion for justice, by a splendid ensemble of actors and by some of the year's most skillfully kinetic filmmaking...
...gypsy cart, the telegraph. The transcontinental railroad was a marvelous new cart (though you get an argument on that from remnant buffalo and Sioux). The interstate highway system, brightest cultural blossom of the Eisenhower years, was a wonder. So were the electric carving knife, the fax machine and the splendid neckties and haircuts of the 1970s...