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...April 1949, it swept the Tony awards, won the Pulitzer Prize for drama and ran for a then-extraordinary five years. For a generation of postwar theatergoers, it was cherished like almost no other American musical. In my own parents? rather sparse record collection, it was the one original cast album that got played over and over - the Broadway show music that provided the soundtrack of my childhood...
Contemporary moms-to-be are embracing, and memorializing, being in the family way: commissioning artistic photographs of themselves, having their bellies cast in plaster and paying for 3-D sonograms that they frame or bind in prebaby albums. Says Jennifer Loomis, who has photographed nearly 2,000 pregnant women from all over the country: "People are looking to capture this moment in their lives because it's so fleeting...
...Catholic church seeks to modernize standards of morality, but it is an offending institution that fails to modernize its own house: it continues to ban women from the priesthood. The Vatican has cast a moral dilemma to today's faithful. When we are silent about the church's discrimination against women, are we complicit in a new sin? Judy Alves, FORT MYERS...
...children. In Nicol's latest novel, Payback, the protagonists are former gun-runners from the liberation struggle days. The new crime fiction captures the frustrations, fears and also optimism of a changing society, offering readers highly complex characters on both sides of the law. In South Africa, so long cast in black and white, capturing the shades of gray is the new challenge...
...Hollywood epics tend to paint their antagonists in comfortingly black-and-white terms; Turkey's dispute has many more gray tones. The conservative Muslims appear as new democrats, though only when it suits them; some cast the social democrats in the role of new hard-line nationalists; and Ataturk, whose biggest aspiration was for Turkey to join the "civilized West," would no doubt be stunned to hear that his military is skeptical of entry into the European Union. Meanwhile, investors are spooked, leading Turkish unions are on strike over a proposed social security reform law, unemployment is over...