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...life are exceptionally tranquil. She dies in her sleep and some time elapses before her death is even noticed by the hospital staff. Then, as doctors and technicians hover over her lifeless body, she creeps away serenely, sheds her gown and stands bathed in white light as the curtain falls. Her departure exudes quiet, dignified glory. Her transition to death is more of a comma than an intense, melodramatic instant. If nothing else, we can take comfort in the hope of that sweet transition, the comma...
...Harvard Crimson Troupe and The Penn Quaker Players, the two women's basketball companies vying for the Ivy League's traditional Cinderella role in March's "Big Dance," will meet tonight at Lavietes Pavilion. Curtain rises...
...drop deadline, most students will make their final scheduling decisions today. However, there is one class which students may still want to shop before setting anything in stone. The renowned Cogan University Professor Hilary Putnam will be retiring after this semester, but not before taking one last curtain call with his former student, Professor of Afro-American Studies Cornel R. West...
...really wanted to be famous. I wanted to have a normal job, pay rent, spend time with my family. I think my role here on the show is just bringing some sense of reality to the people. I kind of think of myself as the guy who yanks the curtain from the wizard of oz to reveal a midget with a microphone. I want to let everyone know that what seems important now - who is is cool and who isn't - isn't necessarily important in the long run. In that way, I'm really just something of a conduit...
...same story be told? Tweedy Time Inc. makes a jazzy marriage (a movie studio! a cable-TV network! an Internet dotcom!), a clash of cultures, a triumph of the new media, the death of the old, etc.? And how many times can Old Media, like an actor at curtain time, rise from the dead, take a bow and prepare to die again in the next performance...