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Salome, although extremely talky, is wonderfully rich in mood. It convincingly mingles luxury and treachery into a romanticist's notion of ancient Middle Eastern palace life. This staging, directed by Robert Allan Ackerman with a cast of 24, is also just the sort of thing that unnerves opponents of the National Endowment for the Arts, which helped underwrite it. The title character's dance of the seven veils, performed by Sheryl Lee, is intensely erotic, authentically nude. The beheading of John the Baptist at Salome's behest, after he has thwarted her lust, is sickening yet hypnotic -- and is based...
...oldest art history departments in America, Fine Arts was left short-handed when a large number of professors retired. The department lost five major figures over the course of three years, including Kingsley Professor of Fine Arts James S. Ackerman and Rockefeller Professor of Oriental Art John M. Rosenfield...
Edelman got a taste of his own tactics last September, when Manhattan lawyer Martin Ackerman launched a proxy war for Datapoint. Edelman responded by entrenching himself more deeply. In a two-day blitz of stock buying, Edelman boosted his stake from 10% to 40%, largely by purchasing stock with cash from Intelogic Trace. Edelman won, but pride had its price: Datapoint shares have fallen an additional 25% in value...
...like South Brooklyn and about as aristocratic as a hash-house waitress. Alexander ably sketches differences among the dowager's airhead sister, mean daughter and timid nurse, but, as the last, lapses into a singsong that has become her trademark shorthand for innocence. Adding to the problem, Robert Allan Ackerman's archly formal staging emphasizes ritual over a sense of place. Still, the two women establish an ever shifting power dynamic. In the last fantasy, when they embrace fondly in an imagined courtyard, their warmth and urgency enable the audience to share in an emotional payoff...
...Healy runs the show," explained Ackerman. Until he makes his decision, she added, "we just wait...