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...lift, a deputy sheriff unbolts the face-high shutter in the solid steel door of the cell and calls to prisoner 4013970. O.J. Simpson arises and is led across the hall for his daily shower. Returning to his cell, he shaves at the stainless-steel sink. A heated kitchen cart is wheeled down the corridor, and through a slot in the door Simpson is handed a breakfast of scrambled eggs, potatoes, two slices of wheat bread and coffee brewed in a stainless-steel kitchen vat so wide it uses a bed sheet for a filter. His only utensil...
...recent morning in his Chicago home and proceeded to throw a fit. He wailed. He kicked. Every muscle in his 50-lb. body flew in furious motion. Finally, after about 30 minutes, Dusty pulled himself together sufficiently to head downstairs for breakfast. While his mother bustled about the kitchen, the hyperkinetic child pulled a box of Kix cereal from the cupboard and sat on a chair...
Then came the fourth of July, the epic match between the U.S. and Brazil. I scheduled my day around it. And I was crushed when we lost. But I was still in my kitchen, and after the game was over I participated in the vaunted American summer activity of watching fireworks. I was beginning to recover; after all the U.S. was out, so how could the tournament hold my interest...
...while inspiring to some, this sort of breakneck change seems only to increase the suspicion among many Muscovites that the qualities that once made their home special may be disappearing. Throughout its tumultuous past, this city always retained the atmosphere of a large smoke-filled kitchen, where people gather late at night to share and confide in an atmosphere of unselfish friendship. Muscovites rely on this "kitchen unity" as a kind of spiritual lodestar that guides them in more difficult times...
...created with writer Deborah Rogin, plays on the Berkeley campus until July 10, then opens the fall season at Boston's Huntington Theatre before being rethought for a new Los Angeles staging next spring. The spectacle is impressive but often slow and emotionally remote. In veering away from the kitchen-sink realism of most immigrant dramas, Rogin and Ott have made too much oblique. Despite program notes, many allusions to Chinese heritage will elude even spectators acquainted with Peking Opera, the crucial inspiration. To Ott, femaleness, not ethnicity, is at the heart of the story. "The relationships this girl...