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...Falsettoland depicts a special world, it does not require a special audience. Doubtless many gays attend, as actor Lonny Price puckishly implies during the prologue by pointing flashlights into the house as he sings the word homosexuals. But a once exotic Manhattan world has become familiar, and its emotional issues concern everyone. The prevalence of divorce has imposed a less prescriptive definition of family. AIDS has settled into the landscape as yet another way to lose a loved one too soon. As the show tenderly depicts, life's joys tend to be small and quiet and its sorrows abrupt...
...Dahlgren does not actually reach Manhattan in Toward the Radical Church, the strongest story in this collection. Dahlgren has been invited to fly to the big city to speak to a presumably rich congregation about the plight of farmers back in the nation's heartland. To steel him for his trip, Dahlgren's two grown sons take him out for an extended night of barhopping, where the old widower almost succeeds in picking up a woman to take home. But she slips away, just as his farm has been doing for years...
...could use junk bonds in two ways: to borrow money for expansion and to invest money for a high rate of return. M.D.C.'s Mizel, hard pressed by the economic downturn in Denver and kept afloat by insider swaps with Silverado, met the junk-bond king in Manhattan and became Milken's enthusiastic client. So too did the influential Norman Brownstein, an M.D.C. board member and Mizel's attorney, who lobbied in Washington in favor of the use of junk bonds...
...being a third-generation Atlantan, I tried as hard as I could to make sure nothing about me--not my accent, not my political beliefs, not my musical taste, not my style of dress--could possibly betray me as Southern. In my mind, the entire Northeast was a cosmopolitan Manhattan and the entire South (except, of course, for my neighborhood) was a 1980s-era Mayberry...
Renowned for some of the worthiest large buildings of the past few years, the architect has finished his best work yet: Carnegie Hall Tower. In horribly overbuilt midtown Manhattan, the 60-story masterpiece is a dancer among thugs. Says Pelli: "You can use modern technology but still give that richness of feeling...