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...culmination and extinction of hope. The vision of plenty for everyone becomes a mockery--a process whose impact is amply documented by the 1930s social-realist segments of this show, with their dock strikers and Mexican migrant workers pitted against grasping Anglo bosses. Different cultures and immigrant races swirl around, not in a melting pot as some optimists have supposed but in unappeased opposition to one another...
...swirl of emotions that stem from losing both parents is typically negotiated through a tremendous channel of grief, which friends and family--even the adult orphans themselves--sometimes greet with limited tolerance. "This is a quick-fix society," says John DeBerry, bereavement coordinator for the Palliative Care and Home Hospice Program at Chicago's Northwestern Memorial Hospital. "Society says keep busy and you'll feel better...
...food critics and cooks by whipping up startling combinations of texture, temperature and taste: bite-size cuttlefish ravioli that explode in a burst of coconut and ginger, soft-boiled quail egg with a crispy caramel crust, a polenta of frozen powdered Parmesan cheese, almond ice cream on a swirl of garlic oil and balsamic vinegar...
...whirl, a back-arched, hip-winked, sly-smiled thrust of her hands in which each finger had a job and a mind of its own, not so much defying time and gravity as making them seem irrelevant, burnishing the Fosse moves into the classic permanence of a Van Gogh swirl or a Beethoven crescendo. In preserving Fosse's spirit, she preserved her own. She knew that they were both creatures of the living theater, of the lightning that struck but once, inevitably reduced by film and electric furniture. "Watch him move," she'd say of Bob. "He knows the joke...
...What will Fidel do next?" He blew into Manhattan at midday on Tuesday and went straight into meetings with China's President Jiang Zemin and with Malaysia's Prime Minister Mahathir Mohammed. Later that night, he met some unspecified American "friends" at Cuba's U.N. mission. In the chaotic swirl of some 700 bilateral meetings around the city over the next two days, nobody knows quite what Castro is planning for the night of Clinton's gala. He is slated to attend an Upper West Side church service for invited guests only on Friday; that, too, could turn...