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Wilson's plays already stand apart from virtually anything else in contemporary theater. The overarching subject of his epic is the legacy of slavery, yet the plays teem with vibrant, idiosyncratic, fully imagined characters who are never reduced to political placards. The plays are realistic, even old-fashioned, in style but sprinkled with mysticism and magic: ghosts, visions, seers and a matriarchal figure named Aunt Ester, who recurs throughout the series and lives to the age of 366. With their poetic, often meandering dialogue, the plays typically start slow (anyone who says his eyes have never drooped in the first...
...have neocons come to the forefront of Japanese political life? Many of the politicians themselves hypothesize that they are both the product and beneficiary of Japan's increasing insecurity about its role in the world. The lost decade of the 1990s, when Japan's status as Asia's most vibrant economy slipped, stripped the nation of its primary postwar identity as the world's great pacifist economic power. Now, China's rise seems to have changed the entire nation's thinking about how to conduct its affairs abroad. Polls show that a majority of Japanese are in favor of revising...
...harbor that, between the Central business district and Tsim Sha Tsui on the Kowloon side, is now just about 1 km wide?shorter than the span of New York's George Washington Bridge over the Hudson River. Visitors to Hong Kong who arrive in town expecting an easily accessible, vibrant waterfront like the ones in Sydney or Baltimore are in for a rude surprise: most of Hong Kong's shoreline is inaccessibly hidden behind skyscrapers, parking lots, utilities and highways. "I can't get a beer [on the waterfront]," says Paul Zimmerman, an executive at a local venture-capital firm...
...renaissance here," says Bruce Berman, spokesman for Boston's Save the Harbor/Save the Bay, the group that spearheaded the waterfront revitalization. "It has transformed the city and put us in a very competitive position." Hong Kong could reap similar rewards. A Designing Hong Kong Harbour study predicts that a vibrant Victoria Harbour with restaurants, cultural venues and marinas would create an estimated 50,000 jobs...
...other dancers wore regalia of buckskin or cloth in vibrant colors, decorated with fringe and occasionally with large feather bustles on their backs...