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Now American Express is staking its future on a new set of credit cards with an accent on lowbrow utility and coupon-clipping value. This week it will begin to roll out some dozen cards, each one pitched at a different segment of the consumer market. Some cards will bear...
The show occupies the Gardner's relatively new temporary exhibition space. (This area doesn't fall under the provision of the will that no one "change the general display or arrangement of any articles on the 1st and 2nd or 3rd floors.") The small scale of the room supports the...
However, "Casey at the Bat" does not owe its popularity just to the quality of its writing. De Wolf Hopper, a well-known musical comedian of the early twentieth century, was given the newspaper clipping of "Casey" to recite for one of his acts.
On a purely formal level, the production works. The actor's timing keeps the pace clipping along and the audience laughing. Led briskly by Margaret Gibson, playing Mrs. Prentice, the cast adheres strictly to the whimsical spirit of Orton's text. The set (designed by Derek McLane) and costumes (by...
Magaziner was not popular among health-care pros in Washington; he dismissed them -- often to their faces -- as too isolated to be part of the solution. Inside the campaign too there were private worries about Magaziner's math. After he had finished his work on the book, the grumbling turned...