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Vladimir Nabokov embraced a similar theme to some wondrous effects in his novel Ada. But the author is no Nabokov, though he shares the master's taste for drollery and erudition. Like Nabokov, he is also something of an outsider. Born in Massachusetts, Theroux has lived abroad most of his adult life. His present home is London. Picture Palace is his tenth novel; The Great Railway Bazaar, an account of the author's international train travels, was a bestseller in 1975, and his reviews and critieism appear with regularity in the U.S. and England...
...amidst the rural setting of a Colorado foothill (complete with a waterfall in background) as a trainee praises him: "Oscar's like a brother who's done it for you. I'm grateful." An alumnus of an asylum describes Arica as "the experience of the positive," Thanks to the wondrous effects of this theory and approach to life, of the trainee declares that he can look back on the "experience" of having passed his 33rd birthday in a mental hospital as a "totally necessary" one. If the makers of this film made any attempt to interview skeptics of the Arica...
...recently, as Clara in Baryshnikov's A.B.T. production of The Nutcracker. Gelsey enters in a swirl of other young people and first steps out of the crowd as a shy spectator of party festivities. At bedtime her tiny frame is swallowed up in a pink nightdress. Later, amid the wondrous dream parade of snowflakes and exotic entertainers, the girl-woman Clara stands out as the most ethereal and ephemeral creature...
THAT IS PERHAPS Cunningham's greatest gift, as the performances last week made clear. His work explores the processes of the body, but its effect also allows the onlooker to explore the processes of the perceiving mind. He gives us the dance: wondrous, self-delighting motion without any prop of plot or theme or explicit significance. And watching the dance, one becomes aware of the mind's response: a subjective discernment of plot and pattern, and the shape of ritual; a perception of the grounds of symbolic recognition in the flowering of unburdened form...
...papaya is a wondrous fruit-abundant, tasty and nutritious. A papaya extract is the active ingredient in supermarket meat tenderizers, and the papaya has long been used by traditional healers to treat illnesses ranging from hepatitis to gonorrhea. Now an extract from the fruit has become the center of a growing medical controversy. Despite doubts expressed by many U.S. experts, hundreds of U.S. citizens are traveling to Canada to be treated with a papaya enzyme for what is commonly called a slipped disc...