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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...
Wilkins, who has taught at the Law School since 1986, says he hardly has a free minute to spend alone with the life-size cardboard cutout of Michael Jackson that inhabits his office...
...into a virtual Stealth Vice President. There are not even any pictures of him on the Bush-Quayle re- election poster, presumably out of fear that the Vice President's vapid visage will repel swing voters. Says a senior G.O.P. adviser: "You won't see Bush even with a cutout of Quayle." This strategist admits the image of Clinton and Gore working so closely in tandem "points up the weaknesses Quayle brings...
Thursday evening, workers carried a cardboard cutout of Rudenstine down Brattle Street to the president's Harvard-owned house at 33 Elmwood St. They carried signs bearing photographs of Rudenstine and the questions "Where's Neil?" and "Where on Earth is Neil?" Other signs read, in blood-red letters, "Nightmare on Elmwood Street...
...probably not to be heard on the radio anywhere short of the far ends of the FM dial. But it's worth searching out. If there's a college station in your area, they'll play it; any record store that doesn't feature a life-size color cutout of the Nelson twins will probably stock it. A couple of the musicians' names will be familiar to connoisseurs: Richard Thompson, Paul Brady. More -- and this is the beauty part -- will be new: Chris Whitley, Will T. Massey, Peter Himmelman, James McMurtry...