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MANCHESTER, N.H.—Rebecca E. Rubins ’05 spent last Wednesday like the ten preceding 15-hour days, frantically researching in dull light on even drabber furniture...
...possible for a musical to be really about something--to grapple with serious issues of race and class, childhood loss and adult guilt--and not feel like homework? That's the question raised by Caroline, or Change, the most ambitious new musical of New York City's rather dull theater season. Written by Tony Kushner (Angels in America) and partly based on his own childhood, the show is set in Louisiana in 1963 and focuses on the relationship between a black maid and the liberal Jewish family that employs her. At a time when musicals seem to be groping...
Abigail Johnson Dodge, a cookbook author who oversees cooking classes for 8-to 12-year-olds, cautions against giving kids knives that have grown dull. Instead, she suggests table knives for young children, then paring knives and, finally, the sharper tools of the trade. Parents must supervise closely, she says, and "it's important that the knife fit in their hands well." Having and handling the right implements is one of the joys of cooking. "If the tool isn't going to get the job done, it's going to be frustrating," says Dodge. "We want to turn children...
...personas. A dozen songs later, it's still hard to say exactly what Moore sounds like. Ronald Isley's standards album - Here I Am: Isley Meets Bacharach - succeeds for the very reason Stewart's and Moore's fail. Rather than fit his classic R.-and-B. voice into the dull formalism of Burt Bacharach's songs, Isley spirits away the songwriter's greatest hits to slow-jam land. On Close to You, he plays endlessly with single words like "why" and "close," seducing them until he decides they have had enough. His quasi-religious version of Raindrops Keep Falling...
It’s the waffly, spineless centrists—not Dean—who would be hung out to dry by the Rove machine, and Gore’s endorsement reflects a recognition of that reality. He would know: His dull, centrist campaign, aimed at the swing voters upon whom the DLC is forever fixated, turned off three and a half million liberals, who flocked to Ralph Nader and handed the election to Bush. Are many on the left going to bother to schlep to the polls to vote for a Democrat who kowtowed to the President...