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...theatergoer in Princeton, N.J., buttonholed an usher during the intermission of the play Anna in the Tropics a few weeks ago. Her complaint: too much cigar smoking onstage. The usher patiently explained that the play is, after all, set in a cigar factory--a family-owned plant in Tampa, Fla., in 1929, where the Cuban-American workers have just hired a new "lector" to read novels to them while they work. Cigar smoke, however, is only one of the sweet and strange aromas that waft from Anna in the Tropics. Written in the lyrical, somewhat formalized language of a folktale...
...students, Anna, had selective mutism and would only talk to people in the family or people she trusted, Nguyen says. Her regular school teacher had told Nguyen that Anna was excessively shy and only spoke in one-word answers, but then “one day at BRYE, Anna said, ‘Wait for me, okay?’ and it was a really big deal,” Nguyen recounts. She says it might have been the influence of being around younger people and more liberal teachers...
...Nguyen, a director of the summer program and a junior at UMass-Amherst who also went through the BRYE program, says that he remembers, “this one morning, when Anna’s mom came up to me and told me Anna was really anxious to have her drive her to BRYE because she missed her friends and Thanh...
...lair of his vulnerability to two strangers--the writer Nathan Zuckerman (Gary Sinise) and a local louche woman named Faunia Farley (Nicole Kidman)--The Human Stain warms to its characters' decency and neediness. It blooms in poignancy with flashback scenes of Coleman's '40s family--the wise mother (beautiful Anna Deavere Smith) and upright father (Harry Lennix) he disowns--and finds anchor in his affair with Faunia. "Granted, she is not my great love," Coleman says. "But she sure as hell is my last love. And that deserves some respect." So does Hopkins, whose acting here is a slow, painful...
...Anna Holt, a junior from MIT, argued that there was a shift in Kennedy as his presidency progressed, describing him as a “politician who made the transition to a statesman...