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...sides of the two-lane roads, and as a runner carried the Olympic torch toward them, they would signal thumbs up and break the country silence with a soft, startling cheer. Their faces would glow with a complex light--a patriotism both palpable and chastened, a kind of reawakened warmth, something fetched from a long way back...
...mother a traditionalist who believes the only good music is God's music. This becomingly naive plot--a black Jazz Singer or a prequel to Dreamgirls--is sturdy enough to support a dozen or so knockout gospel singers, with a spirit that cradles the audience in its communal warmth. Steve Williams leads the Reach Ensemble with dervish vitality; Terry Myrick and Gaillou emerge from that choir to perform prodigies of soul stirring; and Octavia Lambertis (who alternates in the lead role with Desiree Coleman) leapfrogs octaves as she sings gospel or R & B with angelic possession...
Educating our children to protect themselves against sexual abuse [EDUCATION, Nov. 12] is commendable and necessary. However, the pendulum may be swinging too far in the other direction. It would be a tragedy to deny children the warmth of a relationship with a well-meaning adult like a neighbor who touches the youngster's head or pats his back. Many people may now refrain from any contact with a child for fear of being branded an "Uncle Harry...
...work of Matisse is a carnival: of light, of warmth, of eros and of art itself. Matisse (Rizzoli; $95) is a celebration of the celebrator: a formidable, 752-page volume with 930 illustrations that took 14 years to prepare. Not a minute was wasted. The French master's parabola is traced from early still lifes of glowing Oriental rooms and odalisques to the shimmering, heated imagery of dancers, to the paper cutouts and stained-glass windows executed when he was in his 80s. Pierre Schneider's text echoes Matisse's advice to his students: "Retain only what...
...Boheme, sung in a flip, funny new English version by Lyricist David Spencer, is no Pirates-sized smash, but its opening night last week, in Papp's tiny Anspacher Theater, was a modest, almost bashful, success. This is petit opera, not grand, but there is a clear gain in warmth and intimacy at the level of drama. The singers use body mikes instead of heroic rib cages and Pavarottal diaphragms, but they are young and good-looking, and they have no trouble seeming appropriately broke and love-sopped (nor in delivering Spencer's sometimes jarring lines...