Laster

Schneidermann, as it turns out, is a Holocaust survivor and, in Laster's view, an unjustly neglected composer, the "iconoclast even the iconoclasts worshipped," while he, Laster, has lived a relatively privileged life as a soloist:

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Laster is an unusual first-person narrator, but that's what he is, and we ultimately must judge him and his roundabout tale in the same way we would judge a more conventional first-person account.

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But in a March ruling in a shareholder lawsuit concerning a proposed MacAndrews & Forbes merger with Revlon Inc., Vice Chancellor Laster said that such lawsuits weren't always fruitless.

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It's a fragmented piece of storytelling, to be sure, but eventually we learn those sorts of things we need to know about the characters -- and really Laster and Schniedermann dominate the story -- and their circumstances that we would get from a more straightforwardly related narrative.

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Vice Chancellor Laster, one of the Delaware court's five judges, also criticized KKR & Co., which he said "knowingly participated in Barclays' self-interested activities."

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Vice Chancellor Laster, who didn't respond to a request for comment, has a nickname for the plaintiffs' firms who take the cases: "frequent filers."

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Many of the anecdotes Laster relates are compelling, some hillarious; over the long run, Laster's voice, and thus Laster himself, is vividly rendered, leading us through what becomes an hours-long exhortation, even if what we finally remember is probably less Schniedermann (who remains, perhaps unavoidably so, somewhat distanced and enigmatic) than Laster's own desperate attempt to make us remember him.

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As we will discover, the elderly Schneidermann is missing (he excused himself from a matinee showing of Schindler's List and Laster hasn't seen him since), possibly dead, and Laster has apparently decided that a proper tribute to the composer requires him to speak instead of play.

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Laster, as he left the airport in a taxicab, Gulet said in a brief interview that "it feels great to be back."

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So declares renowned violinist Laster as he is about to begin his solo (the cadenza) in his friend Schneidermann's concerto.

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