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...success began leaking out last week, shares of stock in Celera Genomics, of Rockville, Md., moved sharply higher. And when the news was announced on Thursday, presidential science adviser Neil Lane hailed it as "a very significant achievement." That was an understatement. Under the leadership of its brash, brilliant president, Craig Venter, Celera had beaten a big-budget, government-funded program in the race to sequence the human genome--to spell out the molecular "letters" that make up the genetic code embedded...
...other characters what we really wish to define as normal and sane, and was Bananas' selfless devotion completely crazy? Each production-in truth each performance-could have posed this question differently and played with it to many extremes, but one leaves the theater feeling fortunate to have witnessed the brilliant interpretation of this particular cast and crew...
...These changes have their drawbacks. Gone is the brilliant juxtaposition of public speech and private thought that makes the original script so intriguing. Gone is the overwhelming presence of words in the play-a lecture practiced in a library, cascades of written and spoken letters all desperately trying to make sense of a violence too heinous for language. But what takes the place of these lost elements is equally intriguing. The Ohio State Murders in its current production is a lyric exploration of emptiness, an absolutely breathtaking amalgam of hauntingly lonely lighting, pale-colored costumes and a score that...
...timing and diction are all impeccable. As her mirrored comrade (and adversary, depending on the scene) Gwendolen, Jennifer Moxin puts her considerable comic vitality to fine work here in what is sometimes mildly bizarre exaggeration, sometimes farcical explosiveness. These two work particularly well together and they fashion Wilde's brilliant Act Two confrontation scene into what is one of the high points of the evening's entertainment. Another image that remains indelibly in my mind is that of Lady Bracknell (Sarah deLima) and her daughter Gwendolen making their first entrance like a battleship with a cruiser in its wake; identical...
...Vorenberg will be remembered not only as an outstanding dean and a brilliant lawyer, but as a wonderful human being, someone whose constant devotion to his students and colleagues has left an imprint that will last for generations," said University President Neil L. Rudenstine...