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...What's the first thing you tell them?" I ask her before the walk. "Breathe," she says. It's easy to forget to do when your life has been knocked out from under...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Breast Cancer's Fundraising Warrior | 10/23/2008 | See Source »

...tell it, Morrison reaches back in time--way back. Beloved was set in 1873, in the chaos of postbellum America. A Mercy is set in 1680, when America was nothing more than a loose amalgamation of Indians, religious zealots and malodorous trappers and traders wandering a continent over which territorial lines had been only lightly and provisionally sketched...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Older Writers Revisiting Their Younger Selves | 10/23/2008 | See Source »

...work for the Americans early in the war, then were abandoned to face sectarian revenge). Some plays are stripped-down monologues, like Judith Thompson's Palace of the End, in which an Iraqi woman, a British weapons expert and a U.S. soldier who took part in prisoner abuse tell their stories; others are more ambitious, experimental and experiential. Coming soon to off-off-Broadway: a 3 1/2-hour environmental-theater event called Surrender, in which audience members are put through simulated training and deployment to Iraq, taught how to search for insurgents and then sent back home to go through rehab...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Stage Fight | 10/23/2008 | See Source »

...first produced at Philadelphia's Temple University and now playing off-Broadway). Though the play is worthy and often affecting, the selection of vets seems as calculated as that of a Hollywood WW II platoon (disillusioned amputee, gung-ho nurse, gay soldier burdened by "Don't ask, don't tell") and the message (soldiers good, war bad) a little...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Stage Fight | 10/23/2008 | See Source »

...first time to display the very important advances made in sculpture in the 1960s and ’70s,” says Molesworth. β€œThe Pulitzer gift contains eight pieces from that period in our history so it radically changes our ability to tell the story of post-World War II art.” These sculptures include works by Donald Judd and Richard Serra, as well as other significant contemporary figures...

Author: By The Crimson Staff | Title: A Gift of Art | 10/23/2008 | See Source »

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