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...from showcasing a new generation of downtown talents, like Rent's Jonathan Larson or Bring in 'Da Noise, Bring in 'Da Funk's Savion Glover, this season could pass for a Friars Club reunion of old Broadway tunesmiths, with Cy Coleman (Sweet Charity), John Kander and Fred Ebb (Cabaret), Maury Yeston (Nine) and Leslie Bricusse (Stop the World--I Want to Get Off) all back on the boards...
...these changes fall within the normal ebb and flow of climate variation on the continent? Or, in concert with other changes afoot around the world--the retreat of glaciers in Europe and North America, the increasing range of cold-intolerant plants and insects, the increase in extreme weather events--do they signal that human tampering with the atmosphere is affecting the global climate...
...Educational institutions conceive themselves now as a political party," he said. "The liberal arts colleges are at the lowest intellectual ebb in their history...
...choreographer Bob Fosse (her live-in companion for several years), and one look at that distinctive Fosse style--bodies that slither and strut, every hunched shoulder or cocked head a seductive come-on--is a reminder of a whole lost vocabulary of Broadway dance. John Kander and Fred Ebb's score is a model of its craft. No detachable love ballads here, just a stream of tuneful, witty numbers that make their point, engage the ear and evoke an era without sounding like mere pastiche...
...weekends, or those who work in Los Angeles and inch longingly toward the suburbs on Friday afternoons, we cannot escape. Those who live in the Quad are slightly luckier, because the Cambridge Common provides a physical break from the academic world, but even they are subject to the ebb tide of Hilles Library and the distant yet powerful influence of the river...