Word: 42nd
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...craft eludes him. A mild gag here--the mispronouncing of Gianni Versace's name--is tortured into an endless motif. Nomi has a clouded past, but that doesn't explain why she is such a gratingly annoying creature. The giddiest moment in this All About Evil by way of 42nd Street comes when a club owner is asked whether the revue should close down because the star is out sick. "Not a chance!" he actually says. "The show goes...
Meanwhile, the good people of alt.politics.clinton still appear to be divided on almost all issues concerning our 42nd president, but over at alt.music.pearl-jam there was a consensus growing that the correct lyrics to Yellow Ledbetter had been found. Things seemed calm at alt.philosophy.zen, one discussion of zazen culminating with advice from a user going by the name Sleater, "You need only listen to the whisper in your own heart. My brain is only a reflection of yours...
...high-concept, image-driven entertainment, on stage as well as in the rest of popular culture, the ascendancy of what is maybe Chekhov's least eventful major drama comes as a surprise. Louis Malle's movie adaptation, Vanya on 42nd Street, has become an unexpected art-house success. This nicely calibrated play-within-a-film, starring Wallace Shawn as Vanya, follows a New York City theater company that is rehearsing the play. Two more film versions are in the works-one directed by and starring Anthony Hopkins; the other an Australian version from British stage director Michael Blakemore...
...loss to the reader. We want to hear more. First in His Class is a pageturner, but only because it informs rather than titillates. It may not change the minds of those who disagree with Clinton politically, but it does recognize the life story of our much maligned 42nd president for what it is: a great, often ambiguous, but uniquely American success story...
Brattle Theatre. 40 Brattle St., HarvardSquare, 876-6837. "Arabian Nights" at 8 p.m.,"Canterbury Tales" at 5:45 p.m. and "TheDecameron" at 3:30 p.m. on Thursday, Feb. 16."Vanya on 42nd Street" at 3, 5:20, 7:40 and 10p.m. on Friday, Feb. 17 and Saturday, Feb. 18,with a Saturday matinee at 12:45 p.m. "TaxiDriver" at 3:30 and 7:55 and "Silence of theLambs" at 1:15, 5:40 and 10 p.m. on Sunday, Feb.19. "Atlantic City" at 3:40 and 7:50 and "LocalHero" at 1:30, 5:40 and 9:45 on Monday...