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Piano Lesson debuted more than a year ago at the Yale Repertory Theater, where Wilson has launched all his plays. In that production, the work seemed an intriguing but unpolished amalgam of kitchen-sink realism (there is literally one onstage) and window-rattling, curtain-swirling supernaturalism. Not much of the actual text has changed. But at the Goodman the play confidently shuttles spectators between the everyday present and the ghostly remnants of the past, until ultimately the two worlds collide. The first glimpse of the spookily poetic comes before a word is spoken, when a shaft of white light illumines...
...prospects in a more open North American economy. Most important, Quebec's response reflected the degree to which the French-speaking province has become politically and culturally self-assured, apparently more confident than much of English Canada that its identity will not be submerged into a North American amalgam. Even the separatist Parti Quebecois, now a minority group, urged supporters to back free trade and Mulroney. Said Liberal strategist Patrick Gossage, a member of Turner's campaign staff: "There's a new Quebec out there. It's a happy, comfortable province...
...where victory is the definitive judgment on the players. And the real insult to the electorate is the patronizing attitude that it is a sort of lumbering collective beast, immune from error because it reaches its judgments through some mystical process that is beyond rational discourse, rather than an amalgam of individuals, each one fully capable of being right and being wrong...
...gravity and centrifugal force as one set of skates slices within inches of another, spectators have found an appealing amount of danger. There is less of it than in aerial skiing, which is as much a sport as cliff diving in Acapulco, but much more than in that odd amalgam of shuffleboard and housecleaning called curling. In the current heat of demonstration sports, short-track skating seems worthiest to win normal- event status...
From one end of Yugoslavia (pop. 23 million) to the other last week, the nation that Josip Broz Tito rebuilt from the rubble of World War II seemed to be nearing collapse. An unruly amalgam of six republics, two autonomous provinces and more than a dozen languages, Yugoslavia has been divided against itself since it was founded in 1918. But the charismatic Tito brought unity to Yugoslavia and took it out of the Soviet orbit. Before he died in 1980, after 35 years in power, Yugoslavia appeared to be a model of innovation -- and a proudly neutral nation wooed...