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...operative difference, of course, is that Williams achieves a special power by combining all three, melding them into something more than the sum of the parts. The current production of Vieux Carre at the Mainstage takes advantage of this curious union, and its presentation closely mirrors both the strengths and weaknesses of one of Williams' last plays...
Naipaul offers only one answer: countries must not look back too far and turn precolonial times into "le bon vieux temps de nos ancestres." This is the solution of General Mobutu in Zaire, a senseless one. Mobutu combines tradition and technology in a way that belongs to neither culture: African dances performed in a television studio, African art relegated to a sculpture niche in the wall of Mobutu's residence. Mobutu's "African nihilism" promises the flashy cars and gold wristwatches of Western technology while attacking their source...
...highball glasses, hanging on to San Francisco's cable cars, riding the escalators up and down Los Angeles' Century City still wearing your HELLO MY NAME is badges. And gawking at the tall buildings along Manhattan's Avenue of the Americas, snake-dancing through the streets of New Orleans' Vieux Carré, wearing aloha shirts in Waikiki, slapping old backs and cooking new deals in the hotel lobbies of Washington, Las Vegas, Seattle, Peoria and Everywhere, U.S.A...
...build an entire town, Villages of Homestead, that will add more than 14,000 homes to the tight south Florida market and provide 4,000 jobs. On South Carolina's Kiawah Island, the Kuwait Investment Co. is building a $500 million resort community. In New Orleans' old Vieux Carre district, an Iranian investment foundation is helping finance the development of a 23-acre complex of offices, apartments and a glass-enclosed shopping mall...
When I awoke, she was sitting cross-legged on the floor in her newest Rudi Geinrich special--a translucent hefty bag with a hole cut in the top for her neck. "Ah, mon vieux, tu t'es leve." She laughed and threw back her pretty head. The maid brought it back to her. "And now I shall read to you. Chloe," she called, ringing a dainty cow-bell, "le livre!" "Wit' bacon and onions?" Chloe asked liltingly as she stomped out her stogie with the toe of her Converse. Cheryl laughed and threw back her head once more; Chloe double...