The mystique of the rose
The most popular of flowers, the rose nonetheless retains its mystery.
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A prophet for our times
The complex, controversial Italian film director Pier Paolo Pasolini (1922-75) – who lived through some of the most troubled moments in Italian and world history – speaks to our own time, in his criticism of both the right and the left and his warnings about the evils of consumerism, the pitfalls of globalism and the manipulation of new media, which in his day was television.
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Gillian Anderson drives this ‘Streetcar’
Tennessee William’s “A Streetcar Named Desire” is always an occasion, and so it is with the production at St. Ann’s Warehouse in Brooklyn through…
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Basic instincts
Perhaps nature is less at war with itself than we are with nature. We struggle, in the biblical scheme of things, to “fill the…
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The wild one?
Few cultural icons have embodied animal magnetism the way Marlon Brando did. When he blazed across the theatrical sky as Stanley Kowalski in Tennessee…
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