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...whole mood, of Little Edie's lament "Daddy's Girl," are a direct lift from Sondheim's Follies song "In Buddy's Eyes." Little Edie's second-act fashion statement, "The Revolutionary Costume for Today," is another Sondheimlich maneuver (that's David Zippel's pun, for praise or blame, not mine); and Big Edie's "The Cake I Had" takes its repetitive phrase from West Side Story's "A Boy Like That...
...Trouble Is Not in Your Set Re "Blame It on Teletubbies" [Oct. 30]: The Cornell University economists whose study suggested a potential link between autism and young children's television-viewing habits should earn nothing but derision for their efforts. Their report?and the ensuing publicity it has received?only serves to draw attention away from the critical need for legitimate scientific-research initiatives to determine the causes of the autism epidemic. The answers that thousands of families so desperately seek about autism will be discovered in the laboratory, not through anyone's cable bill. Alison Singer Senior Vice President...
...just breaking into the scene, such images have little resonance, except as tools to raise their prices, says gallery director Zhao. "To them it's like being in manufacturing--they are cranking out a commodity," he says with a sigh. "But then, at prices like these, you can hardly blame them...
...Donna Bullock as Becca, despite the fact that the part is so beautifully written. Her performance we miss the fragility that rounds out the character and allows us to sympathize. Rather than being grief-stricken, this Becca comes off as merely irritable, and one can hardly blame Howie for wanting to stay out of the house.James Noone’s set, a slide-show of rooms sliding (creakily) in and out of the frame of the house, is a bright spot of the evening, transitioning inventively from perfect suburban kitchen to perfect suburban living room to the child?...
...current structure for hiring new faculty is largely to blame. Departments play a major role in selecting candidates for tenure, and only departments—not interdisciplinary committees like social studies—can hire permanent faculty. This leads to two problems. First, departments often select professors with similar specialties. This leads to concentrations of outstanding professors in some subspecialties, who in turn attract other top scholars and top graduate students. While such a strategy can be beneficial for developing fledgling departments and groups of experts on key topics, it has the potential to leave tremendous voids in which Harvard...