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The Wesbrook women, Lee Blessing says in his haunting off-Broadway play Eleemosynary, are determined to be exceptional. The grandmother is a New Age visionary, the mother a science scholar blessed (and cursed) with total recall, the child a national champion speller who not only knows the shape of words...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: Willful Women, Home Truths | 5/22/1989 | See Source »

Punctuation, then, is a matter of care. Care for words, yes, but also, and more important, for what the words imply. Only a lover notices the small things: the way the afternoon light catches the nape of a neck, or how a strand of hair slips out from behind an...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: In Praise of the Humble Comma | 6/13/1988 | See Source »

I have just had the poignant displeasure of reading another entry in the Crimson tradition of free-verse editorials, Mark T. Brazaitis's piece, "Iowa Sends a Zing at Hart." Some would call it difficult to respond to the substance of such a piece--that is, substance of a particularly...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Too Harsh on Hart | 2/9/1988 | See Source »

The three principal roles are again played by the actors who originated them in London, and therein lies the show's chief weakness. As the Phantom -- musically, a tenor good guy rather than a baritone baddie -- Michael Crawford gives the most compelling performance currently to be found on any Broadway...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: Music Of The Night THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA | 2/8/1988 | See Source »

At the center of the movie is Pablo (Eusobio Poncela), a famous movie director whose sister (Carmen Maura) is a transsexual. Pablo dreams of a lover who will adore him completely but he chases young Juan, who will not commit to him. "I'm typing the letter I want to...

Author: By Aline Brosh, | Title: Flaw of Desire | 9/25/1987 | See Source »

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