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...Owada seems to have the world at her feet. On June 9 she will marry Crown Prince Naruhito, who will be the next Emperor of Japan, the world's oldest monarchy. The Japanese royal family does not have private wealth like Britain's Queen Elizabeth, but the government takes splendid care of it. More important, the imperial family enjoys the nation's respect, unlike the beleaguered Windsors, who may be only a few tapes away from oblivion. As crown princess, Owada will deal with the world's most powerful and interesting people -- statesmen, business leaders, educators, artists -- and travel...
Cookbook of the Year: The Splendid Table: Recipes from Emilia-Romagna, the Heartland of Northern Italian Food, by Lynne Rossetto Kasper
What Nelson and Was have done is pick 14 splendid songs by some peerless songwriters -- including Bob Dylan, Peter Gabriel, Paul Simon and Willie himself -- and weave them into a subtly colored spiritual stocktaking, a sort of internal monologue that's like a road movie set to music. It's one measure of their singular achievement that disparate as their sources may be, they all focus finely on Nelson's restless spirit. Across the Borderline is as achingly, bracingly personal as any record he's made since the seminal Red Headed Stranger...
Novelist T. Coraghessan Boyle (Water Music, World's End) is a writer of prose that is very stylish indeed, though the thought wafts through a doubter's mind that he has not yet written anything quite as splendid as his own name, which like his paragraphs he parts nattily on the left. Boyle's flaw in his past work has been to seem a bit precious and self-pleased. His new novel is one of his better efforts, though effort is the key word here, and the result is, at best, a story that is amusing and interestingly...
Garcia Marquez's famous magical realism is difficult to capture on the stage, but a great deal of this production does a splendid job of suggesting the atmosphere that would generate such a style. In the first scene, where Tobias (Billy Hulkower) is haunted by the crabs, the actors swirl in an eerie and effective dance. The scene where Petra (Neela Pania), who interprets the smell of roses as a sign from God, dies and is buried, is a knockout, probably the most powerful moment in the production. Petra's death and interment take place against a back-ground...