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...psychological maladies illuminated on post-'70s talk shows. No wonder Company's director, Scott Ellis, so often has Gaines peering handsomely but dazedly into the spotlights. What's to become of him? He blinks with uncertainty--unlike his creator. After Company, Sondheim would move on to the even finer musicals--Sweeney Todd, Sunday in the Park with George, Into the Woods--on which his reputation more securely rests...
Corporate involvement is not going to prevent the folks at alt.drunken.bastards from discussing the finer points of cheap beers, or the readers of the newsgroup alt.philosophy.zen from striving towards greater spirituality. In fact, it is the free-flowing, gossipy nature of these electronic communities, the specific absence of an underlying profit motive, that gives them their strength and charm...
...painter Luis Melendez (1716-80), whose massive arrays of boxes, wrinkled cheeses, copper cookware and glittering dorados or sea bream were disparaged as minor art by academic pooh-bahs and never won him the success he deserved. But other than France's Jean-Baptiste-Simeon Chardin, there was no finer still-life painter in 18th century Europe...
...anyone knew how to get the best medical treatment, it was Betsy Lehman. A health columnist who had worked at the Boston Globe since 1982, she had covered everything from leading-edge research to the finer points of a physician's bedside manner. When she learned she had an advanced case of breast cancer, she carefully studied her options and chose to undergo an experimental treatment offered at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, a prestigious hospital affiliated with Harvard Medical School. Tragically, the 39-year-old mother of two died in December. But as a front-page story...
...Good Laugh The exchange of jokes is unfiltered and thus occasionally unfunny in the rec.humor newsgroup. A finer repertoire, or so it is said, is in alt.humor.best-of-usenet, which is monitored...