Word: acclaimed
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Yeltsin's relationship with Gorbachev remains tense. Irritated by the acclaim Gorbachev received during his recent U.S. visit, the Kremlin accused the former Soviet President of "whipping up political tensions" by openly criticizing government policies and vaguely hinted that "legal steps" might have to be taken. These flare-ups of the old public feud are more reflective of the Yeltsin team's insecurity about its image abroad than of realities at home. Gorbachev has become increasingly irrelevant to Moscow politics. Yeltsin clearly has the upper hand and could make life difficult for his former rival at the constitutional-court hearings...
...KINDS OF CIVIC BETTERMENT have enjoyed wider approval than the regional nonprofit theater movement. But the acclaim has tended to obscure three dirty little secrets. First, many of these institutions have been afflicted with an edifice complex, caring more about glistening facilities than about what goes on inside them. Second, the regional houses have been loath to risk developing new plays and, even more, new musicals. Third, at many of them the acting is mainly mediocre. A seeming example of the first and third shortcomings is the Denver Center Theater. The four-stage complex is as impressive an array...
...Amid the acclaim for Guys and Dolls and the rest of this exceptional season can be heard Broadway's perpetual murmur of nervous discontent. The wealth of new shows, a third more than last season, creates a competitive scrabble that may kill off the weakest. The new entries are also putting pressure on holdover shows, like The Will Rogers Follies and The Secret Garden, that need another season to pay back investors. Off-Broadway too has been hard hit, hemorrhaging audiences to the abundance uptown...
...called Four Jews in a Room Bitching, features a soft-shoe-dancing psychiatrist lilting about how "everyone hates his parents" or has two women characters cheerily introduce themselves as "the lesbians from next door." But then, only Falsettos, which capped off the Broadway season last week to wide critical acclaim, has music and lyrics by the quirky, quixotic, querulous and unquenchable William Finn. Depending on your ears, Finn is either Stephen Sondheim's natural successor or merely his canniest imitator. (Both are graduates of Williams College, and Sondheim, it is said, thinks the resemblance stops there...
Marti Leimbach's new novel, Sun Dial Street, explores the depth and permanence of this filial "tattoo" and weaves it into the fabric of her witty and sensitive novel with literary innovation. After penning Dying Young, which won her critical acclaim, Leimbach creates an equally bittersweet story that sparks the reader's imagination with its details and elicits a sense of identification with its down-to-earth depiction of events...