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...don’t want to be heavy-handed and say ‘this is good,’ ‘this is bad,’” Miller told an audience of a dozen or so students and community members in the basement of the Carpenter Center Saturday morning after the performance. “It’s a blur...
...life, warriors are judged by their prowess on the battlefield; in death, by the manner of their dying. When Russian special forces cornered Chechen separatist leader Aslan Maskhadov in a basement in the village of Tolstoy Yurt, Chechnya, last week, they offered him the chance to surrender. When he refused, the Russians say, they blasted the concrete bunker in which he was hiding, killing him in the process. That final gesture of defiance has transformed Maskhadov's reputation. For years, many former comrades disdained him as a weak political leader who, after a victorious war of secession against Russia...
...Rushdie--McEwan always stood out as the one with the morbid streak. His early short stories brought to nasty behavior and abnormal psychology the full resources of literary nuance. Then came his first novel, The Cement Garden, in 1978, about four children who have buried their mother in the basement. In The Comfort of Strangers, published three years later, a listless young couple on holiday find themselves in the clutches of a suavely murderous host. The film version was written by Harold Pinter and starred Christopher Walken, a conjunction of names that tells you a lot about what was then...
...witty, lightweight songs by William Finn (March of the Falsettos), the show is, first of all, a funny spoof of the rituals of these contests--from the up-close-and-personal commentary, delivered in earnest half-whisper by the moderator ("Mr. Barfee has a sea anemone circus in his basement"), to the ridiculously unhelpful sentences meant to put the words in context ("Sally's mother told her it was her cystitis that made her special"). The show also, more distractingly, partakes in the current Broadway fad of audience participation: four civilians each night are selected to go onstage to compete...
...hour-long discussion that took place in a basement hearing room of the State House, Barrios and Wolf described the inner legislative workings of controversial issues such as stem cell research and gay marriage...