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Operation Rescue is a serious threat to the right to choose, and they will not just disappear if we ignore them. They will get media attention whether or not we are out there. And their demonstration would have a serious impact even if they didn't get on the news; they would affect the women who wanted to go to the clinics...
Lindsey's virtue is that he understands the centripetal nature of power -- that to get to the core of it, you have to almost disappear. Lindsey is everywhere and nowhere at the same time. "He's like oxygen," says Clinton strategist Paul Begala. "You can't see him, and you can't live without him." After years of his being at Clinton's side -- Lindsey was the presidential candidate's first traveling companion when the two trekked anonymously through airports, carrying their own bags -- there is practically nothing in print about him. He shuns interviews and does...
History cautions against too quickly proclaiming a Golden Age for native opera. The 1930s witnessed a false dawn when Howard Hanson's Merry Mount and Deems Taylor's The King's Henchman, among other worthy pieces, took the stage at the Met only to disappear soon after. A few decades later, composers such as Douglas Moore (Baby Doe), Robert Ward (The Crucible) and Samuel Barber (Vanessa) made another attempt to establish American opera, but their works faded as well...
...bride at every wedding and the corpse at every funeral. In SOLITARY CONFINEMENT, a thriller that opened on Broadway last week, actor Stacy Keach achieves something akin to T.R.'s dream. Without spoiling the "surprises" in a lumpishly predictable plot, one can reveal that Keach does not disappear when the reclusive billionaire he plays is shot and dumped into one of Harry Houdini's escape boxes before the first-act curtain. Keach acts with brio and glee, but as ever with author Rupert Holmes (The Mystery of Edwin Drood), the characters lack inner life. As the set suggests, they...
...House, some people are heirs to the wild tradition that brought parties to the late, lamented swimming pool and permitted smoking in the dining hall. In other words, some people remain committed to the artsy stereotype. Others, mostly those randomized into the house, wouldn't mind seeing the stereotype disappear...