Reading and Roaming
CULTURE NOTES This month, the Sarasota cultural scene re-awakens with orchestra, opera, theater and choral performances. Not as many as in the new year, but what I’d call a mini-season. Earlier this week, we had the treat of a session on the costumes for the musical, Evita, being presented by our favorite Asolo Repertory Theater. …
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RE-ENTRY I’ve been back home just a week. My head is still lingering over some distant ocean, and the time in New Zealand becoming a memory. The four weeks seemed longer, and now I’m trying to process all that we saw and did. Probably two things stand out from everything else: 1) it’s an incredibly …
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SMALL SCREEN The Vietnam War by Ken Burns and Lynn Novick (PBS) With all the advance publicity, it’s hard to imagine any viewer is unaware of Burns and Novick’s monumental documentary about the Vietnam War. The range of viewpoints and interviews from all parties (Viet Cong, North Vietnamese Army, South Vietnamese Army plus civilians, American …
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READING ROUND-UP. What follows are the mini reviews of all the books I’ve written about in the past three months. A friend suggested I aggregate them so here they are. Everything from Madoff to an advice columnist to a neglected author in nonfiction to several mysteries plus a host of novels from the most literary …
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