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...Auden was, in fact, a great poet, but for all the public knew or cared, he was just an ordinary homosexual living and working in a world that, by tacit agreement, did not pry into people's sex lives. Even when the media came out of the closet -- pencils erect and cameras hot -- to chase stories about the New Libido, homosexuality was still a taboo subject...
...ignore the fact that we don't pay our union workers a decent wage. We never think about why Cambridge's universities erect new buildings in neighborhoods which won't (or can't) fight back, often at residents' expense...
...replicate their mean lives and dead-end careers or the madness to which they are all heir. And so, in this slum of bruised humanity that never seems quite human to him, where "the birds endlessly bitch about winter," Leo will scribble his thoughts about his family. He will erect a castle of words on the fertile ground of his imagination, on the fetid soil of his craving for love, revenge and escape...
...Vegas' neon-lit Strip, the famed Dunes Hotel has closed for good. The Dunes casino helped nurture Las Vegas' popularity -- and notoriety as a magnet for sharp-dressed mobsters. Its arching marquee became a relic in an age of larger resorts. Owner Steven Wynn plans to raze it and erect a new $400 million casino and family park...
...David Leveaux's sturdy Broadway revival, figured that the play might not be terrible if Anna weren't quite so Swedish. She jettisons the immigrant inflections for a flat Minnesota accent. More helpfully, she makes Anna a fighter, battered on the wheel of men's lust but still defiantly erect. The actors' posture is important here. As Anna's negligent father, Rip Torn walks with the cramped stride of a man who stays upright by lying to himself -- even as Torn remains true to the text by speaking in the obscure diction of the Muppets' Swedish Chef. And Liam Neeson...