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...have to keep watching it for a while to figure out what is really going on." Whether he is right or wrong, studies of the rings could eventually provide important clues about how stars die. One thing for sure: these stellar performers can go out with bangs that leave brilliant and lasting marks on the cosmos...
...category rarely won by a straight play -- is the London import An Inspector Calls, a drawing- room melodrama exploded into a streetscape of urban despair. The opening scenes are daringly played inside an enclosed mini-mansion that gradually opens and finally topples, a metaphor for the collapse of capitalism. Brilliant as the effect is, one wonders whether the creators realize what economic system actually did fall apart in recent years...
Breyer's critics consider him brilliant but passionless, given to formulas and fine distinctions but lacking an overall vision of the Constitution. "It was no coincidence," says a colleague on the Harvard Law faculty, "that he only taught antitrust and administrative law." (Breyer also carved out a course area for himself in economic regulation.) As a judge he has shown little interest in such issues as civil rights, privacy or the First Amendment, which have provided most of the fireworks on the high court for the past four decades. The First Circuit of Appeals in Boston, where he sits...
...Martin's strongest suit. His insights, though cogent and integrated into casual dialogue with obvious mastery of craft, come out of so many textbook summaries and sound too regurgitated to be more creative than didactic. Original characters have always been his fort, and here, again, they are at once brilliant and painfully funny. Will LeBow as the art dealer, Sagot (both real and reputedly a patron of the Lapin Agile), pompous, self-important and fake when it comes to anything but buying and selling, lights up the stage with every appearance. Leslie Beatty as Germaine, the waitress, is sassy...
...lawyer's lawyer--a brilliant andpragmatic legal scholar and practitioner and anice guy," said Dershowitz...