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Director Frank Galati, a Tony winner for The Grapes of Wrath, has given this production a slow, loving pace, as is required to reveal the characters' anguished, complex inner lives. The cast, led by five-time Tony winner Julie Harris, is splendid. As Tom, Zeljko Ivanek is particularly fine. With quicksilver facility, he is now the sly commentator standing outside the action, now the hot-tempered and frustrated artist. When he nearly upsets Laura's menagerie, the look that flashes across his face is a tiny cornucopia of rue, love, self-disgust, fear and resignation. Calista Flockhart's Laura...
...also said elites often try to create ethnic conflict because it is a "splendid instrument of staying in or coming to power...
Most of the performers, including Robertson, have some Native American ancestry, which gives the music not only pertinence but resonance. Robertson has made splendid music before. This time, in every sense, the songs are written in blood...
...music, Elvis Aron Presley gave no quarter.In the eighth grade at Humes High in Memphis, Tennessee, 10 blocks from the public-assistance housing project where he lived with his mother and father, Presley pulled a C in music. He objected. As Peter Guralnick writes in his supple and altogether splendid new biography, Last Train to Memphis: The Rise of Elvis Presley (Little, Brown; 560 pages; $24.95), for a boy who was "wary, watchful, shy almost to the point of reclusiveness," such a challenge to a teacher was a radical move, like a con calling out the warden or a parishioner...
...very pleased with our choice, and I am confident that John Rosenberg will continue the splendid leadership the magazine has enjoyed for so many years," said Daniel lves, president of the magazine...