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...clear from the first note of the Encores! Follies that the best revivals bring a new clarity to old shows. Director-choreographer Casey Nickolaw, whose recent Broadway work (Spamalot, The Drowsy Chaperone) has been spot-on silly, somehow summoned a perfect reading of the antique text, and piqued in people who'd seen the show before one of those "Eureka!" moments. Now, we got it. We saw the maturity, the emotional wisdom in Goldman's libretto. His story - about two married couples who meet 30 years after the girls, chorines in a Ziegfeld-type revue, met their husbands...
...notoriously difficult to read large amounts of text on an electronic screen, so the Reader comes with a gentle, matte display that doesn't glow or flicker. Its frame rate is extremely slow, and the contrast is weak, but at least it doesn't make you feel as if your retinas were peeling off. If your eyes are weary and feeble from years of abuse, as mine are, you can even hit a button on the Sony Reader to make the text bigger...
...search the text of a book using the Sony Reader, and that's a disappointment, since searchability is one of the main reasons to digitize a book in the first place. Google is spending a fortune to scan millions of library books into a massive database because to Google's all-seeing eye, books are a hopelessly inefficient way to store information. That doesn't mean books are obsolete. You can use Google Books to retrieve a single valuable snippet of information from a book, but you could never actually read a whole book on a computer screen. The Sony...
...actions of previous governments. In a novel of such resonance and restraint, this epilogue strikes the sole forced note. For Australian readers, at least, the title carries enough emotional weight to speak volumes, and Jones is too subtle and cerebral a writer to suggest a polemical reading of her text. Instead, Sorry is most eloquent expressing a more singular kind of sorrow, while suggesting why the simplest utterances are often the hardest...
...maybe I’m upset because I actually like to talk to people, see their faces, look into their eyes, and hear their voices. I love to laugh, but humor is something that’s completely lost by way of the text message. I also like to say what I want without a machine trying to guess my next move (predictive text will baffle me to my grave...