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...India, a collection of articles he wrote for The New Yorker, Ved Mehta traces the corrosive effect of unchallenged political power during what he calls an "Orwellian passage of time." Mehta, who was born in India but has lived in the U.S. for many years, recognized from the beginning how dangerous a path Mrs. Gandhi had chosen. By her action, he wrote, "she risked making it possible for politicians, much more ruthless and power-hungry than she, one day to dislodge her and perpetrate abuses of power previously unimagined...
Cunningham is himself a dancer of extraordinary subtlety and power--"he really does seem to have more in his little finger than most dancers have in their whole bodies," the New Yorker's Arlene Croce has remarked--and the movement of his dances, radiating from a center of balance in the lower spine, demands a firm technique. Despite the disjunction between music and dance, another key component of Cunningham style is rhythm. But as former dancer Brown explains, "Merce requires...that the rhythm come from within: from the nature of the step, from the nature of the phrase, and from...
With The Zapping of America, Paul Brodeur has extended his reputation as a thorough and unrelenting science writer. But more than a science writer, Brodeur, a staff writer for The New Yorker, digs for the undisclosed hazards of microwave radiation. With amazing detail and research, Brodeur impresses upon the public its own very lethal ignorance of microwave radiation, and further divulges the secrets of microwave research hidden by the military and industrial powers around the world for nearly 30 years...
...When Begin proposed giving back the Sinai, it just blew our minds," says Gary Mazal, 30, a New Yorker who settled in the desert 27 months ago. Mazal points out that Israeli governments have spent at least $7.5 million so far to build attractive concrete apartments and single-family houses, their grounds surrounded by palm and guava trees, as well as shops, schools and workshops...
Jane Kramer, who originally wrote The Last Cowboy for serialization in The New Yorker, sets Henry and Betsy Blanton in a determinist context of history, geography and economics. Her sympathetic sketches of modern cowboy life are framed by facts - about beef consumption (Americans ate 27 billion lbs. of it in one year), ranching technology, federal meat-grading standards and the quirks in Texas law. Cattlemen, for example, don't have to fence their animals in. Farmers who want to protect their crops have to fence cattle out. Kramer achieves the intended effect: to show the American cowboy riding...