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"Street Scene" / Dana Goodyear
__ After the pep talk, the extras lined up to have their brows and clothes brushed with fuller's earth by a pair of ager-dyers from the costume department.

"Letting Go" / David Sedaris
__ My mother, however, looked at the bright side. "Now I'll know what to put in your Christmas stocking!"

"After Hamlet" / Cynthia Zarin
__ His speech was without bombast and eerily contemporary.
__ Tim Carroll, who has directed Rylance many times, said, "He has what all great sportsmen have: he seems to have more time than anyone else... He has control of time."
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"Final Destination" / D. T. Max
__ "When he's winning, it's Hopkins." (Staley will recite "The Windhover": "I caught this morning morning's minion, kingdom of daylight's dauphin, dapple-dawn-drawn Falcon.") "When he's losing, it's Milton." (Staley likes to quote from "L'Allegro":"Hence loathed Melancholy, of Cerberus and blackest midnight born.")
__ "G.T.T." - Gone to Texas - became a recognized abbreviation in the rare-book business.

"Summer of '42" / Charles D'Ambrosio
__ A trowelful of silence worked like mortar; you patted a scoop of it between every sentence to keep the course true.

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"Pre-Game Dept.: Bruce and Eddie's Day Out" / Lauren Collins
__ Cutler, a decline-of-civilization man

"New Orleans Postcard: Consulat D'Influence" / Dan Baum
__ "As Frenchmen, we are attached to whatever pertains to memory," he said.

"Other Dimensions" / Peter Schjeldahl
__ His abstracted flora and fauna, hints of machines and weaponry, sexual innuendos and hieroglyphic signs, and allusions to Catholic reliquaries and tribal fetishes rarely escape the toils of secondhand sincerity.

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