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...deserts a dying lover, Joe Mantello projects a nihilism far more intriguing than Stephen Spinella's saintliness as the lover, although Spinella has the almost unplayable task of being visited by angels, ascending to heaven and returning to earth -- alive despite two apparent death scenes -- to bless the multitudes. Kushner has said the play's second half is two drafts away from being done. He should focus on this character and the banal finale if he wants to be poetically -- rather than just politically -- correct...
...teenagers' first menstrual period and cycles of the moon. In an Ash Wednesday rite, women repent not of their own sins but of the sins the church commits | against women. Last month, 30 members of Chicago Catholic Women gathered to chant, "I am a woman giving birth to myself; bless what I bring forth," and then shared eucharistic bread and wine -- without once uttering the name of Jesus...
...Americans again fret whether the U.S. can survive changes brought by immigration, it is heartening to revisit the songs of Irving Berlin, a Russian Jewish immigrant whose words and music, from God Bless America to White Christmas to There's No Business Like Show Business, prove how readily and deeply he resonated with the spirit of his new nation. His work is gloriously celebrated in SAY IT WITH MUSIC at New York City's ritziest nightclub, Rainbow & Stars, on the 65th story of NBC's building in Rockefeller Center. A cast of seven led by Kaye Ballard performs 47 songs...
...looked cool in those shades. As a musician, however, he was in way over his head. Of the two numbers he played, Clinton seemed more at home on Heartbreak Hotel; his growly sound suited the rhythm-and-blues genre, though his attacks were sloppy. Billie Holiday's ballad God Bless the Child was a mess. Clinton's phrasing was unsure, his tone thin, his melodic lines disintegrated into meaningless trills. But the audience loved it -- and maybe they were right. In a campaign dominated by sound bites, it is refreshing to hear a candidate come out with something really important...
...courtroom, Myerson has been a master at proving deception in others, regularly badgering witnesses into submission and throwing himself shamelessly at juries. "Please God, find for us. God bless you," he begged jurors at the 1986 conclusion of his most famous case, an antitrust action brought by the upstart U.S. Football League against the monopolistic practices of the National Football League. Myerson and the U.S.F.L. won -- but they received a humiliating $3 in damages and the lesson that even courtroom victories are no guarantee of riches...