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...production of Henry IV, Part 2 raises many important issues. Visually engaging--if not outright beautiful--and intellectually challenging, it presents a vivid, funny and melancholy depiction of a young. person's attempt to grow up. It's a must see for all those who cannot sleep well during these critical times...
...Lowell they call it the Acre. Less than one-seventh of the current 105,000 citizens of this Massachusetts mill town call it home. But tens of thousands of working-class immigrants going back a century and a half before them have left marks as vivid as the archaeological artifacts uncovered in successive layers of limestone. In few places are the textures and tensions of ethnic urban history as legible as they are here...
...than a career: to fashion a new identity out of the conflicting allegiances and double-edged stereotypes that plague the Asian-American psyche. Material success has bred resentment, envy, even backlashes of violence from such other subnationalities as blacks and Latinos; last year's Los Angeles riot was a vivid reminder of that vulnerability. The image of Asians as immigrant role models has also disguised the enduring poverty of some, as well as the political feebleness of the minority as a whole...
Homer gave to each death in battle a vivid, ghastly intimacy, a perfect uniqueness that would flash-freeze the instant: no two deaths the same. Keegan has a similar eye for the memorable in war. The eye is connected to the mind of one of the century's most distinguished military historians...
...short stories, and he has never abandoned the form. Strange Pilgrims (Knopf; 188 pages; $21), his fourth collection, proves again that the author's distinctive magic realism can come in relatively small containers. But it does so with a difference. These 12 stories take place far from the vivid South American settings of his other tales and novels, including One Hundred Years of Solitude (1970) and Love in the Time of Cholera (1988). In a prologue the 1982 Nobel laureate notes the theme that links these stories together: "the strange things that happen to Latin Americans in Europe...