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...speaking for the world, I mostly did love it. The Color Purple takes the seriousness of purpose that marked the signature musicals of the 70s, 80s and 90s (your Evita, your Les Miz, your Passion) and hitches it to the propulsive narrative zip of this decade's signature musical comedies (The Producers and its zany progeny). It's an epic, largely tragic tale that rarely dawdles or meanders. Terrible things happen: incest, abduction, the dankest, most intimate forms of betrayal. Yet they are presented with so much energy, in the narrative and the performances, that the effect can be exhilarating...
...show may zip theatergoers back to the '60s, but it was a different '60s. Back then, the Seasons were appreciated for catchy, danceable (or marchable) songs with tight, soaring harmonies. But the Beach Boys, on the other coast, were the preferred vocal group. As for the Seasons' lyrics, I guarantee nobody was parsing them to determine the romantic ache, handed out and absorbed, behind the perky melodies and simple rhymes. (It took the Beatles to bring together the '60s teen's high and low aspects: English lit and rock 'n' roll...
...those not familar with the neighborhood, picture a place where families, churchs, schools, businesses, all coexist with each other in an area where it takes only 10 minutes to get "anywhere." We hear of people determined to return to the area, but zip code 70124 is still wiped out. When the rebuilding can take place is anybody's guess. My house has been gutted and sits empty down to the beams. Many of our treasured belongings sit on the street being observed by the occasional passerby...
...William R. Fitzsimmons ’67. Byerly’s outreach program seeks to dispel these darker aspects of the Harvard myth: that the University is a leisure-class training ground where only the wealthiest are welcome. The new recruiting techniques, such as targeting low-income applicants by zip code and paying personal visits to students in economically depressed regions, aim to make Harvard’s resources appear more accessible to the working class...
...adults hiv positive. But the literacy rate is a respectable 86%, and 5,000 new titles are published each year. Besides, as in India and other poor countries that export fiction, great troubles can make for great novels. Asked if the end of apartheid would take the zip out of South African fiction, Gordimer once responded: "On the contrary. We've got plenty of problems." Gordimer's Get a Life, published this month in Britain and the U.S., is a good example. It's the story of Paul Bannerman, an ecologist and antinuclear campaigner in his mid-thirties who, ironically...