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...anecdotes featuring, over and over, the same sort of people: fatalistic men and moody women who, for a poignant, painful, precious few moments, connect. He cocoons these beautiful losers in his distinct visual-emotional style. The mix of cigarette smoke and step-printed slow motion, furtive glances and liquored wisdom, lends ordinary anguish an almost majestic glamour...
...Casey Nickolaw, whose recent Broadway work (Spamalot, The Drowsy Chaperone) has been spot-on silly, somehow summoned a perfect reading of the antique text, and piqued in people who'd seen the show before one of those "Eureka!" moments. Now, we got it. We saw the maturity, the emotional wisdom in Goldman's libretto. His story - about two married couples who meet 30 years after the girls, chorines in a Ziegfeld-type revue, met their husbands-to-be - was revealed as a brilliant portrait of loves lost, ideals corrupted, obsessions curdled into desperation. Suburban infidelities truly could be the makings...
What are the qualities demanded of a leader? Wisdom? Integrity? Experience? Perhaps. But what really counts may be pubbability - an elusive X factor that makes voters want to share a pint with a politician. And on that front, Gordon Brown - the 56-year-old Scot who is expected to replace Tony Blair as Britain's Prime Minister this summer - has a problem...
...crash of 1987 are all demonstrations that "the world is dominated by the extreme, the unknown and the very improbable." A follow-up to his Fooled by Randomness, about the role chance plays in life, The Black Swan is a provocative macro-trend tome in the tradition of The Wisdom of Crowds and The Tipping Point. Taleb draws on history, philosophy and psychology to suggest that our love for simplistic explanations blinds us into thinking we understand how things work. What to do? Look for ways to foster serendipitous developments (like discoveries--good Black Swans) while preparing broadly for disaster...
...through thought and through reading poetry and philosophy,” she says. It shows, especially in “Compline,” one in a series of poems chronicling the liturgical hours that was published in the Spring 2006 issue of The Gamut. The poem exudes the wisdom of a poet twice her age and the energy of any college writer, as in its final stanza:“[W]hat evidence can there be for your eyes? They cast no shadow / but the shadow of my darkness, as reddening breath / passes within us and opens every window...