Word: brilliante
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...first Loeb Mainstage production of the semester is the quintessential late '60s musical, with the large added bonus of a brilliant score by Stephen Sondheim. Company is the story of a single man among his married friends, and his shifting feelings about the value of marriage. Paris Barclay's crew is a bit uneven, but all the leads can sing, which is all that a musical really requires. A must for Sondheim freaks--and since there are so many of the, you'd better get your tickets in advance. Tonight, tomorrow and Saturday...
...Sadat's visit to Jerusalem was brilliant," says Tali Bashan, 21, a political science student at Hebrew University, "but it was no argument for our making large concessions." Adds Geula Cohen, a Knesset member and an old comrade of the Premier's in the Irgun movement: "Begin didn't think. He gave away the sovereignty of the Sinai like a present, without getting anything in return...
...folks sitting next to me--management "plants," I reckoned, the magnitude of whose outbursts of laughter stood in inverse proportion to that the of the rest of the audience; when a line simply wasn't funny, they'd purposely laugh, look wild-eyed at each other, and exclaim, "Brilliant! Just brilliant!" 3) They were drinking champagne throughout the performance, and its smell, too, began to get to me after a while. 4) The theater was too hot for me. 5) I was the "odd man out" in a room which contained penguin clones and one self-proclaimed "critic...
Others around town may be more brilliant, eloquent or forceful than Califano, but he is on the verge of becoming the most capable. True, the time is right for him and those very human problems in which he deals. But it is also true that he is something special. He cares. "I want to show people that these social programs can be run right, that they can help those who need help," he says."I want to show people that you can manage this place...
...sort who put his audience into a bathysphere and took them down three feet. He could not have met Leslie Fiedler, who, along with Norman Mailer, is one of the most daring skinny-dippers in U.S. literary and social criticism. Throughout a long career that includes some brilliant fiction (Nude Croquet, 1969), Fiedler has boldly led his readers down whirlpools of the national subconscious. In Love and Death in the American Novel (1960), he argued that the country's literature was obsessed with death and therefore incapable of developing mature heterosexual themes. Such matey relationships as Natty Bumppo...