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Allen A. Narcisse, a classmate at HBS and personal friend of Su, said she was a very sweet person, someone who would make unfriendly environments comfortable with the warmth of her personality...
...correspondence with a laborer on the Panama Canal. He proposes marriage by letter, comes to New York to claim his bride, and proceeds to foul up her life. The play (first produced at California?s South Coast Rep) is almost painfully sad, yet feels alive with human warmth and American optimism. Nottage based it on the life of her grandmother; her achievement is to make it both a lovingly rendered family story and a fascinating and original slice of the American story. Watch for Broadway, and the Tonys, to discover this fine playwright soon...
...with the tropes of classic movie romance. Consider just three. Music: a slow samba can seduce two strangers into moving to each other's emotional time, and 2046 sways to Perfidia and Quiz?s, Quiz?s, Quiz?s. Cigarettes: everyone puffs away pensively; the fumes wrap the characters in a retro-chic warmth as they dedicate themselves to that mesmeric movie rite, the sacrament of smoking. The kiss: 2046 has one of the great ones, between Chow and Su. He stands her against a wall and presses mouth to mouth. He moves back, and we see Su's lipstick violently smeared. A tear...
Three hours after emerging, their bodies have fully darkened, and their shells begin to harden. Male cicadas head for the treetops, where the warmth of the sun improves their singing...
Clouds, which reflect sunlight, ought to cool the earth. But they can also hold in warmth. That second effect swamps the first. According to Minnis' calculations, increased cloud cover since the 1970s ought to have led to a warming of .36° to .54°F per decade. The actual warming during this period falls within that range, at just under .5°. That may not sound like much, but when only 9°F separate our current temperature from the last Ice Age, it's clear that a little warming makes a big difference. "This study," says Minnis, "demonstrates that contrails should...