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...TRUE THAT SINGERS SING NOTES, but the word evokes bland images of Post- its on refrigerator doors, "call me" messages scrawled on a pad near the telephone, disposable e-mail hurriedly read and quickly spiked. There has to be a classier term for what Cassandra Wilson sings. Notes just doesn't cover it. You'd have to say that she sings entire epistles, love letters to the soul; every sound that leaves her lips is filled with paragraphs of emotion, written lovingly in longhand with...
...million units in November, the fastest pace ever. Now Clinton is about to get a windfall: 1994 is likely to be the year in which the reluctant recovery finally kicks into gear. When TIME gathered six leading economists to assess the 1994 outlook, there was not a Cassandra among them: they foresaw the strongest U.S. growth since the late 1980s combined with continued low inflation and gradually falling unemployment. "I describe my forecast as 'the best of all possible worlds,' " said a buoyant Edward Yardeni, chief economist for the investment firm C.J. Lawrence...
...Second Troy. The author of "Reproducing Georgia," has created yet another captivating drama which reconstructs the myth of Polyxena and Cassandra, the Trojan prophetess/princess cursed to never be believed. On the eve of the fall of Troy, the doomed sisters, armed with visions of a future feminist world, Diet Coke and therapists, wonder if they can somehow change their fate. Leverett Old Library, 8 p.m. $4 for students; $3 for Leverett residents...
...play takes place as Cassandra (Daniella Raz) and her sister Polyxena (Esme Howard) are in the temple of Apollo waiting for the Greeks, led by Achilles, to storm the temple and capture them. According to myth, Cassandra, who refused the god Apollo's advances, has been cursed by him to speak the truth but never be believed. As a result, she knows what will happen to both herself and her sister. When Cassandra explains that Polyxena must show herself to the Greeks, after which she will be burned and Cassandra will be taken across the sea and murdered, Polyxena...
...addition to reciting a list of topics which affect women in the twentieth century, Polyxena and Cassandra act out a rape scene after Polyxena invites two men to drive in her red convertible; they're obviously not in Troy anymore. Polyxena tries to convince Cassandra to visit her therapist, while Cassandra prophesies the fall of Troy. While inspiring philosophical questions as to who is sane, who mad, and who prophetic, the play does not rely on a political message primarily; it is simply even more intriguing because...