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...Poor Super Man opened last week in Cincinnati, however, the TV- news crews and the theatergoers they accosted were talking about spectators so anonymous no one knew their faces. They were from the police vice squad, checking whether the show's frontal nudity, simulated oral and anal sex, and blunt language violated public decency. "A lot of people wanted to be at this performance," said Ensemble Theatre artistic director David White, "because they weren't sure there would be another...
...even asking the questions, much less providing the answers. It is difficult to point to anything where they have genuinely developed a policy, as opposed to a set of changing positions." Paul Goble, senior associate at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, phrases the same criticism as a blunt question: "If we're the last remaining superpower, why do we act like a banana republic...
...hubbub over Roberts almost overshadowed the main event, the confirmation that the top post will pass in July from Max Frankel, 64, to Lelyveld, 57. The transition will mark a change in style -- Frankel is courtly and professorial, Lelyveld shy yet blunt -- but not necessarily in substance. Both men are Ivy Leaguers and Pulitzer prizewinners (Frankel for covering Richard Nixon's trip to China, Lelyveld for a book about South Africa) who have spent their adult life at the Times. Both reflect a newsroom esprit de corps that approaches religious fervor. Both are political liberals who preach the importance...
Unfortunately, such glimpses of sharp humor tease but do not deliver. Gilbert's libretto satirizes Victorian England, and his allusions were blunt and meaningful to contemporary audiences. A modern staging also needs some deeper dimension to do justice to the operetta. this Iolanthe shows possibilities but does not explore them; the campiness factor, the battle between sexes, or its interpretation as the first Jungle Fever could all be developed further. As it stands, Fairyland has as much bite as a flat scene on the back of a Crayola box, and the Lords react to its inhabitants the same why they...
DIVORCED. EVELYN DAVIS, 64, shareholder-gadfly; from economist Walter Froh Jr.; in Washington. "No more marriages for me," vowed Evelyn, whose craftily blunt criticisms of corporate boards during annual meetings inspired Citicorp to limit shareholders' questions to three minutes...