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...grand slam at the Tony ceremonies: he won two awards, one for writing the year's best play, Torch Song Trilogy, and a second as best actor, for his starring role in the play. Says he, exultantly: "I feel like Cinderella, Sleeping Beauty and Alice in Wonderland all rolled into...
...cigarette case given to Edward VII, to what Fabergé called his objets de fantaisie: a windup, tail-wagging silver rhinoceros, a love-sick frog on a silver column, and-in jade, nephrite, agate, chalcedony, quartzite and other gem stones-a dormouse out of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, a litter of four sleeping piglets, and minimenageries of meticulously observed birds, fish and beasts...
...this lecture Lesser discusses different transitions in human psychological development focusing on the adolescent years. Lesser compares this stage of human development to "the Rabbit in Alice in Wonderland who asks, "I'm late, I'm late for a very important date'--moving on away from the present...
GOGOL'S THE MARRIAGE is not a children's play. It has no fantastic characters, like the playing-card Queen of Alice in Wonderland; it doesn't move with the slapstick speed of Punch and Judy. On the contrary, Gogol's characters, the bourgeois of 19th century Russia, are fairly ordinary people; the humor of inept matchmaking and awkward courtship is less visual than verbal. Nevertheless the show--performed Monday at Children's Hospital and weekends at Quincy House--speaks to the children in the audience. By simplifying the plot and exaggerating its comic elements. Scott Weiner's production gives...
...complained then, "evidently fall within the exclusive province of male action." Now a professor at Princeton, after years of teaching in western Ontario, Gates is currently at work on a mystery novel. A book of her essays, The Profane Art, will appear later this year. The author of Wonderland (in which a medical student cannibalizes a cadaver) has not identified with feminine fantasy since childhood. "I learned long ago that being Lewis Carroll was infinitely more exciting than being Alice...