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Damned Cocaine
POP OPEN THE CHAMPAGNE and toast Lisbon's Teatro Politeama. The once shabby 795-seat theater has been delightfully done over, and is now the ornate showplace for Portugal's first homegrown musical. To the Portuguese, who daily see new headlines about political corruption, Damned Cocaine (Maldita Cocaina) is less...
Composer Nuno Feist keeps things moving with a peppy score of jazz, rock and fado. Critics have airily dismissed the show; nonetheless, it has already broken Lisbon attendance records, with more than 100,000 tickets sold in its first six months. An elegant 1912 dowager, the Politeama had fallen on...
'Get off the damned window.'
Israeli soldiers inside the Tomb of the Patriarchs were scrubbing away the pools of blood, but it will not be so easy to clean up the political wreckage of the Hebron massacre. Talk of peace has been thrust aside by something close to urban warfare in the West Bank and...