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...rests solely (and literally) in the hands of the audience. The performers demonstrate that they are capable of carrying the experience on their own performative merits, so we must wonder why they do not even attempt to do so in the equivalent of their 11 o’clock number...
...somewhat old notion that there is nothing new under the sun,” says Ragozzino in the program. Stephen, Scott’s Son is another collaboration between Ragozzino and director Andrew Boch ’02, who staged Ragozzino’s In Between O’Clock last spring. What saves this production from its unlikely starting point and its unnecessarily long duration (running way over its supposed two hours and 15 minutes) is its discussion of a question that gnaws away at so many of the people sitting in the audience. The play does indeed focus...
...interest in prolonging a confrontation that could only imperil their achievements. But in the atmosphere of hostility generated in China by the Hainan incident, there was a danger that those modernizers could be eclipsed by hard-liners in Beijing hoping to slow, or even turn back, the clock. A solution depended on Jiang and his allies' being given political cover to back down without appearing to lose face...
...colleague Rick Stengel has ably and correctly pointed out in his column that the showdown is a boon to the media - especially in this economic slowdown ("recession"? "bear market"?) - which need round-the-clock news marathons to spike ratings and readership. But ironically, the media are so far also showing a second, contradictory tendency that works against this interest: their tendency to parrot the language of the administration in power, especially when reporting on international affairs. Lest they appear biased or unpatriotic during wartime, for instance, reporters surrender their understanding of English and let "bombing victims" become "collateral damage...
Finally, Owens plugged an upcoming advice book about sleep, for which she wrote the foreword. It's called The 7 O'Clock Bedtime, something I'm thinking of trying. For myself. Good night, kids...