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...Suddenly, Last Summer’ was Tennessee Williams’s favorite play,” Vartikar-McCullough says, explaining his choice. “It came in a period of his life, after a year of being institutionalized. He wrote this in a fortnight, a completely cathartic outpouring. It’s his favorite work, and yet every time it is put on it gets bad reviews.” Vartikar-McCullough is excited by the challenge of directing this show, which has tested so many other directors. To overcome the long line of bad reviews, Vartikar-McCullough plans...
...much as Jarreau relishes staying active, touring remains tough - so Asian fans ought to cherish the opportunities of the next fortnight. "The hardest things on vocal health are singing and traveling," he says. He treats his vocal chords to a regimen that begins six hours before a performance, doing push-ups, abdominal work and vocal exercises. "It's important for a singer to think of himself as an athlete," says Jarreau. Anything to keep the mutiny...
...blame their economic problems on Finance Minister Leslie Delatour, 34, a former World Bank official. Because of his advocacy of a belt-tightening austerity program in a time of staggering unemployment, Delatour is ridiculed by some of his countrymen as a toutou, or puppy, of the Americans. After a fortnight of unrest, the country appeared to be settling down last week as a one-day national strike passed uneventfully. In a conciliatory speech a few days earlier, Namphy had promised his countrymen, ''Things are going to change.'' He added, ''You want a revolution in Haiti. We are going...
Fifth Set: Federer, who has worn a ridiculous throwback knit sweater to warm up for all his matches this fortnight, warms up after the rain delay without it. At this point, in the midst of his ferocious comeback, it's as if he's abandoned affectation and become all heart...
...test the durability of different varieties, technicians at Britain's Sports Turf Research Institute put a tennis shoe on a massive hydraulic ram and then stomped patches of turf intermittently for 13 days, mimicking the conditions of the Wimbledon fortnight. The hammer was calibrated to two different weights: that of the average female and average male...