Word: ens
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Coens create highly original takes on the macabre theme of human pavement art but cannot connect them into anything meaningful or entertaining. CEO Waring Hudsucker takes a running start from the end of the long boardroom table to dive through the glass en route to a majestic conclusion. The next executive to try the same meets with plexiglass. Even the closing scenes when Barnes faces death from the 44th floor has its great moments. These are innovative takes on the physical possibilities of office tower suicides, but the Coens set a tone early on they cannot keep...
DIED. ALBERT GOLDMAN, 66, author; of a heart attack; en route from Miami to London. After stints as an English professor at Columbia and a critic for Life magazine, Goldman found his calling as a merciless demythologizer of such pop icons as Lenny Bruce (in 1974's Ladies and Gentlemen -- Lenny Bruce!!), Elvis Presley (Elvis, 1981) and John Lennon (The Lives of John Lennon, 1988). No one would call these biographies "appreciations": the sordid side of his subjects -- from Presley's addictions and gluttony to Lennon's appetite for violence and sex -- fascinated Goldman. All of it was served...
...angry and frustrated at a costly mission gone wrong, even a dignified retreat is proving difficult to secure. Last week seven more service members died when their AC-130 gunship crashed off the Kenyan coast en route to Mogadishu. As the last American ground troops packed up for their departure this week, free-lance gunmen continued to take potshots at guard posts and passing convoys. Eight warships are deployed offshore should trouble erupt...
...drama, the Adams House Pool Theater Company, staged an ambitious effort to bring its dramatic vision to life in the hallowed halls of the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum this past weekend. Unfortunately, the effort was not wholly sucessful. Having meandered thourgh the beautiful rooms of the Gardner Museum en route to the theater, sold-out audiences found themselves disillusioned at having to cram into an inconvenient space and strain their necks to catch a glimpse of the distant stage. Those who could see witnessed a still rough rendition of Aristophanes' most popular play, Lysistrata...
Although I rarely quote former president Nixon, he was right when he commented upon meeting with then premier, Chou En Lai, that "when our hands met, one era ended and another began...