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...Staff writer Nicole B. Usher can be reached at usher@fas.harvard.edu...
...demands that his teas end as briskly as they begin. At exactly 6 p.m. his assistants usher guests toward the front door. “Friends, friends,” someone calls, “we thank you for joining us this week and we hope you’ll come again next week...
...serious, subject matter.” In fact, technique actually enacts the content and is the perfect vehicle for conveying the heady, mercurial restlessness of youth. Dazzling is staunchly modern in its aesthetic, repeatedly suggesting the co-mingling of fiction and reality. The protagonist and narrator, a cinema usher with impaired vision, says at one point, “Maybe my mood is influencing your story...
Perhaps we shall see a separate line at the department of motor vehicles for Lexus and BMW owners, and Marshall Field's will usher the preferred children forward to see Santa, and there will be a platinum section of Central Park, and why not a gold-club voting machine for people who pay more than $100,000 in income tax, and a concierge-class birthing room at the hospital--pay extra for same-day delivery. But before we get there, consider the cost...
...Nicole B. Usher...