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Literary theorists are fond of saying that every text has its own ideal reader, the person for whom the text is most relevant and evocative. Who is the plan file's ideal reader? It's often hard to say--the very concept of a plan file is so steeped in irony, so full of wink-wink suggestion, that its purpose can be easily obscured. In one sense, a plan file is like a calling card, announcing your position and social status to whoever wants to call on you. Since anyone can finger your account, a plan file is theoretically written...
...want to design something unique, several sites let you mix and match images, music, text and background designs. At postcards.org I got some animated hamsters to dance to an Irish jig, then sent my masterpiece to an animal lover. A similar site, 123greetings.com offers a nice feature that allows you to order a card today for delivery, say, next Thursday. At the much smaller Micro-Images site microimg.com/postcards/) I placed a World War II plane on a dark blue background, added a military marching song and e-mailed it to my brother. He loved it! It was so simple...
...wild romp through dangerous and exciting places, the text subtly takes on the feeling of each different country. When Keelin wanders through the Tokyo night life the descriptions take on a hard, bright, almost neon like quality. As she sweats through sickness in Central America a fuzzy magic-realism pervades. New York and Las Vegas become the barren, American suburban talk-show circuit. Like the text, Keelin is subtly changed by each new location, making a journey that began as a quest for someone else her own. Even as she moves towards real independence, though, Keelin is snared...
...that occasionally strike the reader dumb with incredulity. Despite a few rough edges, the book manages to involve readers deeply in the emotional current of the story. While the novel falls down occasionally in the use of an inner-city dialect which author Connie Porter has trouble translating into text, the skilled use of deliberately, nakedly inelegant language and expressive imagery fills readers with the lyric of her tale and almost unwittingly immerses us in the complexities of Tasha's emotional life...
...material's unique comedy and its subtle inner logic. Hostetler appears to have given his actors the freedom not only to become their characters, but to create them as well. The result is a supporting cast which takes full advantage of the idiosyncrasies already in Havel's text and also adds their own level of comedic interpretation. Although Hostetler's script diverges very little from Havel's, when it does, the additions and deletions illustrate a highly developed sense of humor and an intimate knowledge of how far the text can be taken, since some of the show's funnier...