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...first big mistake was failing to settle on a place and time. The front , curtain's stylized glimpse of Manhattan evokes the '40s-ish nostalgia of Guys and Dolls, while the main set, a dark framework strewn with irregular cutout boxes of vivid color, recalls the '60s -- and, more precisely, Simon's musical hit Sweet Charity. A carousel-like jungle gym in Day-Glo tones suggests the '70s, as do the male lead's fixations on meditation and macrobiotics. The sexual precocity of the female lead's 12-year-old daughter feels contemporary. Yet the sonorous music and often sentimental...
...album closes with Epilogue (Nothing 'bout Me), a swinging, carefree ditty in which the singer takes a parting shot at his would-be analysts. Like a puppeteer peeking out from behind the curtain, Sting dares the listener to "Pick my brain, pick my pockets/ Steal my eyeballs and come back for the sockets/ Run every kind of test from A to Z/ And you'll still know nothing 'bout me." It's a fittingly elusive coda from pop's most mercurial bard...
...inauguration, Clinton shattered the hopes he had so carefully (and so intentionally) cultivated, declaring that the Bush policy would continue temporarily, and sending a flotilla of Coast Guard and Navy ships to enforce it. Since then, the ships have maintained what Amnesty International representatives call a Caribbean Curtain, "effectively transforming Haiti into an island prison...
Standing in front of a purple curtain on the Hasty Pudding stage, President Jake Kaufmann '93 and Vice President of the Cast Adam S. Geyer '93 presented Goldberg with the traditional Pudding Pot and a bouquet of flowers...
Conservative guru Bill Buckley recalled that 21 years ago he was in the Great Hall in Beijing deploring Richard Nixon's joyous cavorting with the Red Chinese leaders. Curtain coming down on a long ideological reign...