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Judy Garland lived to the ripe age of 47 before the pills and fame took her down. But even at 25, in this genial 1948 Irving Berlin songfest with Fred Astaire, there was an eerieness to her charisma. Garland is visibly depleted, her voice often reedy, her teen sweetness now a mask. And then, by an act of sternest will, she summons the old fun, as in the numbers A Couple of Swells and I Love a Piano. The innocent girl from The Wizard of Oz is reborn, through her pain, as a depression-defying diva.. --By Richard Corliss
...campus, Donahue works with a professional theater company as an associate producer for the St. Louis MUNY, an outdoor theatre that produces seven musicals during the summer. His latest inspiration, however, has come from the experimental theatre he experienced during his time in Berlin, where he spent two weeks this past January as part of an independent study...
...It’s rare that I get so excited just being in a theatre watching something. In Berlin, that was a much more common experience. Most of the shows we went to were filled with younger audiences because the theater there was both entertaining and relevant. Perhaps the most arresting piece we saw was at the Volksbuhne. It was a production of a Hans Christian Anderson piece, an epic three hours…what was most amazing about how physical and crazy the entire piece was, was that no matter what they did, it never seemed like they were...
...first address to my class shortly after his appointment, Summers presciently said that “Isaiah Berlin remarked that governments fall because of ideas developed by a professor in the quiet of his study.” He should have taken this advice more seriously, further developing his ideas about diversity before removing them from the quiet of his study under the un-academic mantle of provocation, with “evidence” based on his daughters’ experiences with toy trucks and with phrases like “I’m not an expert...
SECRETARY OF STATE RICE WAS JUST IN BERLIN, AND THERE WERE MANY SMILES. RELATIONS BETWEEN THE U.S. AND GERMANY SEEM TO HAVE IMPROVED. BUT THERE'S STILL IRAQ. HAS ANYTHING REALLY CHANGED? You must not underestimate the importance of the atmosphere, and that's certainly improved. We both agree that in Iraq it's important that we make sure stability reigns, that the reconstruction efforts gather momentum and that the Iraqis begin to build homegrown security forces. The disputes are in the past. The only thing we will not do is put military boots on the ground in Iraq...