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...theatergoer can only respond with a nervous gulp. The good news is that despite the show's occasional pretensions (and a gauntlet of critics suddenly quite protective of a musical they never much liked in the first place), Hwang has succeeded. Flower Drum Song has been rescued from the dustbin of theater history and made relevant again without getting weighed down by political correctness. This new Broadway revival is a work of bravery and intelligence and real faith in the possibilities of musical theater...
Friday the 13th was never this brutal. Watching Ellie, starring former Seinfeld co-star JULIA (Elaine) LOUIS-DREYFUS, appears headed for the same dustbin as Michael (Kramer) Richards' The Michael Richards Show and Jason (George) Alexander's Bob Patterson. The show's ratings have declined each week since its Feb. 26 debut, and NBC announced last Thursday that the April 2 episode would be the show's last for this spring. The plan all along, says the network, was to hold off running the remaining episodes until fall. Oddly, that strategy was never made public until...
BRIT KITSCH Among the hallowed relics of the British Empire facing the dustbin of history: the garden gnome. Can these millennial makeovers, now in British stores, save the twee folk...
...widespread outbreak of infectious disease is impossible unless the microbe is casually transmitted; the kind of virus found in animals known as the retrovirus doesn't exist in man; and no virus causes cancer in humans. By the end of the 1980s, these four truisms had hit the dustbin. Or take a more recent example: the newfound plasticity of the human brain. Until a year and half ago, it was a dogma taught in every medical school in the country that the adult human brain is rigid, that its nerve cells can never regenerate. Now we know our brains...
...question that will determine this novel's fate (in the popular mind, anyway) is whether it will transcend these national bounds, or whether it will end up in the dustbin of "regional literature." I say that the dustbin is a pretty sure bet for this one. I more liked the novel than disliked it, but its author will survive in my mind mostly as a rising talent, not as a full-fledged master. For all Moth Smoke's insights, it smells of trendiness, and I suspect that it will not survive past its distinct historical setting--a setting made possible...