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...started writing poetry, then poetic plays, and then (after moving to St. Paul, Minn., where his work was first staged at the Penumbra Theater Company) developed a realistic style laced with melodious dialogue inspired by the early blues songs he loved. He was influenced by the work of playwright Ed Bullins--who showed him that "you could put black folks on stage as black folks"--but was pretty much a theatrical naif. He hadn't read Shakespeare (except for The Merchant of Venice in school) or Tennessee Williams or virtually any of the other modern American classics. There was some...
...frank and meaningful" exchange. Yet in some respects, Hamada's tough words are more representative of Japan's current political climate than Koizumi's conciliatory ones. After more than a half a century of emerging only fitfully from a pacifist, passive shell, Japan today is striding onto the world stage more boldly than it has done for two generations. And few leaders in Japan seem prepared to apologize for the new mood, however much they may regret the past. A new conservatism is taking hold among the nation's best and brightest young politicians, and Japan, once a diplomatic doormat...
...Schiavo, free of interference, has now peacefully passed through a natural stage of life. Life is precious because it is finite. Alice Hooper Rochester, New York...
...logical or not. Faatin Chaudhury, as Sahar’s mother, especially hits the right mixture of wisdom and stubbornness, allowing her to be the play’s stable center, even though most of her appearances are on a landing to one side of the stage...
...present - no genre films allowed - and the director should not be credited. In March 1995, when Von Trier was invited to Paris' Odéon-Théâtre de l'Europe to speak at a celebration of 100 years of cinema, he took to the stage, read out the manifesto, tossed red pamphlets printed with The Vow of Chastity into the audience, and walked off. The Dogme 95 movement was born. A decade later, around 40 Dogme films have been made, including the American schizophrenia drama Julien Donkey-Boy (1999) and 2000's Danish romantic comedy Italian for Beginners...