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...Give Frankel credit for stealing from the best. He's like a pickpocket with a great eye for fat wallets. But he doesn't add anything. (As TIME Theater critic Ted Kalem said of Cats back in 1982: "You'll leave the theater humming other people's better songs.") That's a shame, because Korie has a knack for clever lyrics; I'd never heard eunuch and Punic rhymed before. For the "Drift Away" bridge he conjures a lovely wistfulness - "Our tete-a-tetes, midnight duets, / Our breakfast tea and toast, / Funny how things that mean the least/ Are what...
...Gentleman, I'm going to be honest: you're better than us," Croft remembers Chappell saying. "But we are going to put plans in place so that, within 15 years, we're going to be not only world champions but world champions continuously." Though he'd later become a critic of player development programs based on technical coaching, Chappell's prediction was spot on. The start date of Australia's reign is a matter of debate, but it needn't be. When Mark Taylor's side trounced the West Indies in the Caribbean in 1995, the title of world...
...EENIE, MEANIE, STENY, HO! Nancy Pelosi's hand-picked second-in-command, outspoken war critic John Murtha, gets trounced in the House leadership elections. Democrats are already cutting and running-from their...
...Brattle has celebrated Janus’ fiftieth anniversary since mid-October, beginning a month-long series with a newly restored print of Renoir’s send-up of the French upper class, “Rules of the Game”—a film some French critics have called the best ever made. The Brattle repertory series ends on Thanksgiving Day with Alfred Hitchcock’s “The Lady Vanishes.” But, before you head off to gorge on turkey, consider stopping off at 40 Brattle St. I guarantee it?...
Tyrangiel is TIME's music critic. To see his complete list of the 100 best albums, go to time.com