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Blythe Danner is an exquisitely accomplished actress, but she is not arrogant enough at the beginning to provide a contrast with her vulnerability at the end. As Tracy's precociously sophisticated preteen sister, Cynthia Nixon captures just the right air of artifice and gives the most assured performance of the evening...
...dessert one night, Cynthia B. ate a candy bar, two bags of cookies, an éclair, three sandwiches, crackers and dip, a jar of peanut butter and half a jar of jelly, raisins and berries, two slices of bread with cheese and mayonnaise, large pizza and four bowls of cereal. Then she made herself throw...
...Cynthia's eating binges, always followed by self-induced vomiting or heavy use of laxatives, are symptoms of bulimarexia (from the Greek words for ox and hunger), an eating disorder also known as gorge-purge syndrome and bulimia nervosa Some bulimarectics gorge themselves four or five times a week, putting away 40,000 calories, then take 200 to 600 laxative pills. "To many of them, a day without binging is like a day without sunshine," says Health Educator Mary Ellen Shanesey of the University of Illinois. "They have chosen this way to handle stress, as alcoholics use alcohol...
...spring's company, with the welcome addition of Chris Clemenson, who makes an impassively cheerful Snout and a ponderously funny Wall. The male lovers, Stephen Rowe's Demetrius and Eric Eliee's Lysander, are as energetic a pair as they were last season; new faces animate the female roles--Cynthia Darlow as Hermia and Cherry Jones as Helena. Darlow's Hermia thrusts her lower lip out at life with a little-girl pout that is sometimes winning and a whine that's sometimes shrill; Jones is more the robust than the morose Helena, bludgeoning Demetrius with her lust. The four...
From the world of dance came New York City Ballet's Peter Martins and Heather Watts and American Ballet The ater's Cynthia Gregory, who fluttered exquisitely through the Fledermaus solo. Placido Domingo exalted Granada. Sherrill Milnes, who spends much of his time playing villains, sang a poetic, almost prayerful Maria. Flutist James Galway. having piped himself on with a penny whistle, dared to play the almost unbearably poignant Danny Boy and, through sheer musicianship, let the beauty, not the tears, flow. Not all the celebrants had to perform. Onstage by the evening's end were many...