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More than anything else, this play rests on the assumption that everyone--not just your roommate--wants to feel more insightful and intelligent than those around. Shear Madness gives everyone and their mother (and roommate) the chance to enact Sherlock Holmes fantasies...
...than today, or merely more self-deceiving. It ends with a middle-aged man confronting medical and moral decay. In between, it depicts rage between the accomplished and the envious, each side etched in acid. Bogosian is politically incorrect enough to play an unappetizing street black, arrogant enough to enact an egomaniacal fan and complex enough to risk a jolting tirade against "starving Africans" who, by their unsettling omnipresence on the evening news, "spoil everything." This rant is at once a wail over injustice and a plea for the surcease of not caring -- and it makes audiences careen between those...
Harvard is working with other colleges and universities to enact legislation enabling schools to exchange the financial records of applicants, President Neil L. Rudenstine said in an interview yesterday...
...reveals that he is not only a high-minded mystifier but a real, low-down entertainer. In Wilson's theater, ideas are pictures. He lights his tableaux with hallucinatory intensity, populating them with actors, all in white makeup, who move with a combination of stiffness and grace. His performers enact archetypes rather than characters, using stylized gestures and movements out of his globe trotter's trunk. In the past, watching a Wilson event has sometimes been like finding yourself in a dream you want to -- but can't -- get out of. Here, given the fairy-tale story and nutty good...
...major factors are in Clinton's favor. Politicians almost unanimously agree that public sentiment so strongly favors some kind of health-care reform that many Congress members dare not run for re-election in 1994 without having voted to enact any. And if Clinton's plan has yet to command a majority, the opposition has not yet coalesced behind any alternative. Those proposed run the gamut from a conservative Republicans' bill that would merely provide tax credits for people buying health insurance, to the liberal Democrats' single- payer plan; neither has a chance of passing...