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...Howard has printed his statement about the play on the back of the program. This passage is obvious and unnecessary, and it detracts from the play, making Crossroads seem that much more pedantic. In his remarks, Howard tells us that "the purpose of this play is not just to entertain but, more importantly, to make you think." Unfortunately, Crossroads takes these words too literally, sacrificing complexity and originality to get its message across...
Barring a deep recession, Mirabella is expected to break even within the next year. Murdoch's News Corp., which is laboring under an $8.4 billion debt, indicated in March that it would be willing to entertain bids for some of its magazine properties -- Mirabella included. The news has caused little disturbance at Mirabella. "It would have no effect on my business or my people," says Julie Lewit-Nirenberg, the magazine's publisher. "I'm very sanguine...
...influx of morally unassailable products. Environmentally sound packaging and recycled computer paper have attracted both attention and buyers. The latest example of this trend is children's literature. Marketed as stories for the entire family, these books more often serve to appease the moral conscience of adults than to entertain the children on whose shelves and bed tables they are deposited...
...FAMILY lives 40 miles from the nearest movie theater and the nearest McDonalds, on a farm in a rural county where cows outnumber people two to one. Smug city dwellers often ask how I managed to entertain myself while growing up in such an isolated backwater...
Often it's just as important to reach the parents as it is to entertain the youngsters. One morning Christensen peeked into a floor lounge and saw a woman sitting in a chair, reading a magazine; a man -- perhaps her husband -- was on the couch, intent on a novel. Stubs asked gently, "Mind if I come in? I need to catch up on some paperwork." He sat on the couch and starting ripping sheets of legal paper off a pad, crumpling them up and stuffing them into his doctor's bag. He soon piqued the adults' curiosity. "Office work...