Word: ets
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Backers of The Capeman, PAUL SIMON's much ballyhooed musical, are doing their best to spin away the bad word of mouth the Broadway show is getting in previews. Too slow. Too static. Too earnest. In fact, Simon et al. are busy making cuts and changes. He's also writing a new number for star RUBEN BLADES and trying to give the show a much needed boost of energy. Director and choreographer MARK MORRIS is still in charge, but such old hands as MIKE NICHOLS, British director NICHOLAS HYTNER and Simon's buddy LORNE MICHAELS have been called...
...third book of his Confessions, Augustine offers a penetrating observation on the nature of compassion. He writes, "si enim est malivola benivolentia, quod fieri non potest, potest et ille, qui veraciter sinceriterque miseretur, cupere esse miseros, ut misereatur" (it is only if there could be a malevolent benevolence--which is impossible--that a man who truly and sincerely felt compassion would desire that there be wretched men so that he could bemoan them...
Some of these, naturally, will be more enjoyable than others. No doubt, lots of people will want to watch Kathie Lee Gifford celebrate Christmas with Kenny Rogers and Enrique Iglesias in a special, We Need a Little Christmas, that airs Dec. 12 at 10 p.m. ET on CBS. But you suspect that if one of those ghosts had used this show to convince Scrooge how wonderful Christmas is, the old man would have been justified in denying Tiny Tim his goose. Yes, many Christmas customs are pagan in origin, but does that justify a special Christmas episode of Melrose Place...
...reaping rewards: While the U.S. delegation once wouldn't go a single percentage point below 1990 carbon dioxide levels, they're now calling reports of 2 percent below "an understatement." So a "modest achievement," in Estrada's words, does seem close ? and Senate ratification is a battle Gore et al can fight another...