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Audrey (Faith Salie) is a 17-year-old New Yorker who loves Georgia O'Keefe paintings. Victor (Stephan Lucano) is an older man who models for Audrey's sketches. The object/objectifier relationship is a familiar theme to the audience by the time these two come on stage, but the exact connection between the two couples is curious and tenuous until the very end, where everything is tied together perhaps too well...
...that the Olympics have come back, after the requisite four year absence, we are once againe bombarded with milliseconds and long, hyphenated German names. For relief, we look back upon the best writing (to our knowledge) that has ever been done on the Olympics, that of the New Yorker's E.J. Kahn...
Kahn, who covered the Olympics for the New Yorker for several decades, delivers a much more oddball view of the Games than any other scribe. Kahn's Olympics are a kind of mad but truthful circus filled with offbeat individuals who, for some reason, join every four years to do the most bizarre things...
Given this natural human propensity for making thumbnail sketches of different types of people, removing all references to Indians from team names is unlikely to prevent people from having a generic image of "the Indian," just as they have one of "the English," "the artist," or "the New Yorker...
HALLOWED HAUNTS: THE DRAWINGS AND WATERCOLORS OF CHARLES ADDAMS, National Academy of Design, New York City. The creepy and kooky, mysterious and spooky imaginings of one of the New Yorker's most famous cartoonists. Through...