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...jarringly bad costumes and set certainly do not impress. The outfits look like dress-up clothes found in the back of a closet. The police officers inexplicably look like Hell's Angel rejects and the hookers look like Barbie dolls. Minimalist crepe-paper palm trees and a funky beaded curtain litter the stage. A God-only-knows-why velvet Elvis painting completes the perfect tackiness of the scene in the Leverett Old Library. But the acting is good enough to compensate for all that...
...have ever witnessed at a Harvard function. Throughout the performance, a handful of the black-tied "sophisticates" in the audience persisted in heckling and verbally abusing the members of the cast, who were doing their level best to continue with their excellent performances. It got so bad that the curtain had to be dropped at one point and an announcement had to be made that the show could not go on if this abusive behavior continued...
Farther north, in Wolfsburg, where the giant Volkswagen factory turns out 4,000 cars each working day, Mayor Werner Schlimme reels off half a dozen other examples of spontaneous East-West contacts that have occurred since the Iron Curtain lifted. "One day in November, a couple of garbage men from Klotze came over and saw one of our municipal garbage trucks at work," he says. "They thought it was wonderful how it lifted the cans and emptied them automatically." Garbage men from the two sides, separated by politics and technology but united in language, began talking trash. The West German...
Really, it would be impossible to give credit for the disintegration of the Iron Curtain to any one person. That would be akin to declaring one person responsible for the American or French Revolutions...
...identifying the killer of his seven-months-pregnant wife as a raspy- voiced black man dressed in a jogging suit, Stuart tapped into assumptions about race and crime so powerful that they overwhelmed skepticism about his tale. His fabrication raised the curtain on a drama in which the press and police, prosecutors, politicians and the public played out their parts as though they were following the script for the television movie that CBS will make about the case...