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Desperately poor and also disabled (she is deaf and cannot speak), Jenny (Rudi Davies) is the only character in the film who is actually worthy of this exquisitely enigmatic art. For as she finally puts it in a note, it speaks to her, and despite her limitations, she can hear...
When Miss Saigon opened in London in 1989, it had two stars, Lea Salonga as Kim and Jonathan Pryce as the Engineer. The Broadway production has three. Pryce and Salonga are repeating (indeed, enhancing) their West End triumphs. She is incandescently in command of the stage; he still gets the...
Frankly, I think Harvard's position reflects a prissiness worthy of Cotton Mather. Such attitudes were generally purged from our institution when Channing redirected the moral and ethical standards away from John Harvard's Puritan heritage toward the very liberal philosophies of Unitarianism.
Author Josephine Hart would like to provide a piece of literature worthy of Widener. But Damage, her novel of sex and death, remains little more than a fluffy book suitable only for beach reading. Ultimately Hart provides neither the intellectual interest of a Faulkner novel nor the enjoyable anti-intellectual...
Damage has a plot worthy of the best Harlequin romances, but Hart diminishes its effectiveness on this base level by striving to create prose that is so stylized it appears amusing. Her writing is so laden with excessive verbiage that, in the end, the author's style, rather than plot...