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This "West Side Story" succeeds by concentrating on the particular strengths of the student production; energy, enthusiasm, and good will. These are so evident that the corresponding lapses in polish and perfection are easily forgiven. Even at its weakest moments, this show is winning. At its best, it makes a "West Side Story" that would be enviable be on any stage...
Observers of the ebullient meeting at Hyde Park could be forgiven if they concluded that the relationship was based largely on personalities, but the State Department has another reading. The Presidents agreed that Russia would participate in some way in the force that implements a peace plan for Bosnia. Whatever Yeltsin's condition, spokesman Nicholas Burns says, this agreement is set. For the next few weeks that may be true. But the hard-liners have won powerful support. If Yeltsin falls, it is not at all clear that whoever succeeds him will so readily accommodate the Americans, either in Bosnia...
...absurd coincidences, broadly archetypal characters and situations (yes, a Nazi thumps out a piano concerto while a prisoner is being tortured nearby), and a sentimentality that verges at times on the woozy. It's as if the writer-director, who in certain high-toned circles will never be forgiven for making A Man and a Woman, had never heard of modernism, let alone postmodernism...
...lessons fans thought they were teaching the owners and players have been forgotten. The greedy trespasses of the baseball establishment have been quickly forgiven...
...greedy trespasses of the baseball establishment have been quickly forgiven...