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...Marshall, his show “had more Harvard G&S players in the cast than MIT students.”Meanwhile, Hammond and his faction produced a musical by Kurt Weill called “Johnny Johnson” at the Loeb Theater.Marshall writes that the whole affair “left HRG&SP with a seriously depleted base, as well as diminished patron support,” leading to subsequent productions of “The Mikado” and “The Pirates of Penzance” that were respectively, as he puts...
Their relationship grows so strong that 007 tenders his resignation. For the franchise itself to survive, however, an unfortunate deus ex machina ends the affair. But before it’s over, we get to see it grow into what is by far the most emotionally complex relationship a Bond woman has participated in, and perhaps the only one of which she is a primary architect. That the filmmakers have to take almost half an hour to fully explore its depths recalls one of Vesper’s defining quips: “I’m afraid...
Istanbul's Greek Orthodox Patriarchate, a complex of 17th century buildings off the shores of the Golden Horn, may be spiritual home to some 300 million Orthodox Christians worldwide, but daily mass here is a decidedly lonesome affair. Only a handful of worshipers, all visiting tourists, fill the ancient oak pews of the Church of St. George. The priests, robed in black, outnumber the faithful...
...member states gather this week in the Latvian capital, Riga, for a summit that will trumpet the solidarity of the world's most successful military alliance. The scripts have been largely written and surprises are unlikely. But as Christoph Bertram, the dean of German security experts, recently noted, the affair will be "like a Christmas service for agnostics, who for most of the year do not pray together or sing from the same hymnbook." The question of what the North Atlantic Treaty Organization should do and become has been a subject of often deep disagreement since the Warsaw Pact dissolved...
After the Clinton-impeachment affair (or the Clinton-affair impeachment?), this drama argued that politics could be noble. Fast too--with the rapid dialogue and the hallway walk-and-talks, the staff of President Bartlet (Martin Sheen, below with John Goodman) had espresso in their veins. Wonky, sexy and high-minded, the show believed that romanticism in the defense of liberty was no vice...