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...about an aunt shamed to suicide by giving birth to a bastard, about uncles murdered by communists who then arrogantly urge her father, safely in America, to "donate" the dead men's lands. These stories clearly indicated to young Kingston that America was better than China. Yet in the everyday dealings of her parents with a world that they did not understand and that accorded them little dignity, the family found ample evidence that America was far worse. This contradiction, among all the others, drove the pubescent Kingston into mute inertia, symbolized on stage by the heroine's spending most...
...most inventive. Over the years he has found plausible plot uses for everything from a Dungeons & Dragons-style game to London's Waterloo Bridge and has evoked laughs from such unlikely topics as a violent bank robbery and a young beauty's attempts to kill herself with the everyday tools and appliances of her suburban kitchen. Ayckbourn's originality, wit, poignancy and unfailing empathy for middle-class values have made him the dominant commercial voice in British theater. Belatedly, he is winning a significant following in America...
...felt very watched, because that was what Iwas doing," she says. "It was the same thing everyday." At the end of that year, she was "hit overthe head with poetry," and started thinking aboutmore serious things, about mortality. In themeantime, she and her roommates decided they'dlive in DeWolfe. "I wanted to write," she says,"and I knew it was such a masturbatory thing todo--'Let me think about myself.' Rather than beseen as a recluse, I decided just to do thosethings privately...
Photographers and cameramen covered the studybreak, capturing footage for an upcomingdocumentary entitled "A Day in the Life atHarvard." And Anshul G. Amar '97 says theinteraction between the students and Rudenstineshowed everyday life at Harvard as more excitingthan it really...
WithLapin Agile,Martin tries to prove he has range, but his greatest strengths are still his quixotic jokes and ironic turns on everyday life. History of 20th century thought, needless to say, is not Martin's strongest suit. His insights, though cogent and integrated into casual dialogue with obvious mastery of craft, come out of so many textbook summaries and sound too regurgitated to be more creative than didactic. Original characters have always been his fort, and here, again, they are at once brilliant and painfully funny. Will LeBow as the art dealer, Sagot (both real and reputedly a patron...